41 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGIJE OF AlTSTRALlAN FISHES, 



white on tlie belly ; muzzle, chin, and round the eyes bright 

 yellow. Length eighteen inches. 



Port Jackson. 



Genus Tephr^eops, Gunth. 

 Like Girella, but with very small scales. 



238. Tephr^ops Eichardsoni, Gunth. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes, I., p. 432. 



Crenidens tephraops, Eichards, Yoy. Erebus and Terror, p. 69, 

 pi. 41, fig. 1. 



D. 14/13. A. 3/11. 



In front of the jaws a single series of tricuspid teeth, separated 

 from the broad posterior band of smaller ones by a groove ; anal 

 fin rather elevated, the second ray being four-fifths of the length 

 of the head. Uniform blackish. 



King George's Sound. 



Genus Neotephksiops, Casteln. 



Like Teplirceops, but with the operculum as well as the prse- 

 operculum covered with scales. 



Australian Seas. 



239. NEOTEPHRiEOPS ZEBRA, Eichards. 



Crenidens zelra, Eichards, Erebus and Terror, Fishes, p. 70. 



Teplirceops zelra, Gunth., Cat. Fishes, L, p. 432. 



Neotephrcdops zehra, Casteln., Proc. Zool. Soc, Vict., Vol. I., p. 69. 



D. 14/13. A. 3/12. L. lat. 79. L. transv. 61. 



Body oval ; the height about three and a-third times in the 

 total length, the head nearly five times in the same. Coloration 

 dark grey or black, with nine broad darker bars descending from 

 the back. 



King George's Sound. 



