406 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



228. Upeneus signatus, Guntli. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, Vol. XX., p. 59. 



D. 8. 1/8. A. 1/6. L. lat. 30-31. 



The height of the body is contained thrice or thrice and one- 

 third in the length (without caudal). Head not much longer 

 t han deep, snout only twice as long as the diameter of the eye. 

 Barbels extending to the hind margin of the pr^eoperculum. 

 Dorsal spines flexible at the top. Tubes of the lateral line with 

 rather long lateral branchlets, in small number. Coloration as 

 in U. larlarinus, but with the black caudal spot large, square, 

 and extending over the back of the tail ; a whitish blotch in front 

 of it. 



Port Jackson. 



Family V. SPAEIDiE. 



Perciform fish with either incisor teeth in front of the jaws, or 

 lateral series of molar teeth. 



1. — Incisor teeth, vegetable feeders. 



Genus Pachymetopon, Gunth. 



Behind the incisor teeth in each jaw, a similar band, but less 

 developed, and replacing the former. No molars ; no teeth on 

 the palate. Dorsal and anal fins partly, caudal entirely, hidden 

 by scales. Dorsal without notch and with eleven spines, scales 

 moderate, cheek scaly. 



Australian Seas. 



229. Pachymetopon grande, Gunth. 

 Gunth. Cat. Pishes I., p. 424, pi. 26. 

 D. 11/11. A. 3/10. L. lat. 88. L. transv. 11/22. 

 A large and convex transverse protuberance between the eyes. 

 Coloration uniform greyish, with the fins blackish. 



