BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 419 



259. Chrysophrys australis, Gunth. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 494, pi. 28, fig. b. 



'' Black Bream " of the Sydney Market. 



D. 11/10-11. A. 3/8. L. lat. 44-45. L. transv. 5/13. 



The height of the body is nearly one-third of the total length, 

 the length of the head one-fourth. The diameter of the eye is 

 four times and two-thirds in the latter, and one and a-half in the 

 length of the snout. Molars in four series in the upper, and 

 three in the lower jaw, the posterior ones largest. The pra3orbital 

 is rather lower than the orbit. There are five series of scales 

 between the prpeorbital and the angle of the praeoperculum. 

 Dorsal spines strong, the fourth longest, nearly half the length 

 of the head. The second anal spine is very strong, equal in 

 length to the fourth of the dorsal. Silvery, with shining golden 

 longitudinal streaks, edge of the spinous dorsal and axil black. 



Port Jackson, Port Phillip &c. 



Family VI. HOPLOGNATHID^E. 



Perciform Fishes, with the teeth of the jaws confluent into a 

 cutting lamella. 



Genus Hoplognathus, Eichards. 



The spinous dorsal with twelve spines, the soft dorsal and anal 

 fins rather elevated ; vertical fins scaly on the basal portion. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



260. HoPLOGNATHUS coNWAYii, Eichards. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes III., p. 357. 



D. 12/12. A. 3/12. 



The length of the fifth and sixth dorsal spines is three times 

 and a-third in the length of the head. 

 Australia ? (Gunther). 



