408 DESCRIPTIVE CATAIiOGTTE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



soft; the incisors with the cutting margin entire, moderately 

 broad, imbricate, above and below in two or three irregular 

 series. A short series of teeth on the anterior portion of the 

 palatine bones. Uniform brownish or blackish. 

 Port Jackson. Port Phillip. 



233. GiRELLA zoNATA, Gunth. 

 Gunth. Cat. Pishes, I., p. 429, pi. 27. 

 D. 14/14. A. 3/11. L. lat. 49. L.transv. a/17. 

 In both jaws a pluriserial band of narrow tricuspid teeth, 

 separated from a posterior band of similar teeth by a groove. 

 Brown (in spirits) with a vertical lighter zone across the middle 

 of the back ; the vertical fins and the ventrals blackish. 

 Australian Seas ? (Gunther). 



234. GiRELLA Blackii, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 41. 

 D. 15/12. A. 3/12. L. lat. 53-54. L. transv. 32. 

 Body oval, its height contained three-times in the total length 

 head four and a-half times in the same, diameter of the eye one- 

 fourth of the length of the head ; teeth with three points ; prse- 

 operculum scaly ; operculum naked, except on its upper external 

 portion. The soft dorsal fin is higher than the spinous. Colour 

 in dried specimen uniform light brown, with the lower parts more 

 yellow. 



Port Phillip. Four inches and a-half in length. 



235. GiRELLA ELEVATA, W. sp. 



" The Bnmimery 



D. 13/12. A. 3/10. 



Height of body more than a third of the total length ; length 

 of head one-fifth. Teeth tricuspid, the middle cusp large and 



