426 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AITSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Genus Lateis, Eichards. 



Dorsal fin deeply notched, with seventeen spines; anal elongate; 

 none of the simple rays of the pectoral elongate. Teeth villiform 

 in both jaws ; no canines, Prseorbital entire ; preooperculum 

 minutely ciliated. Scales small. Cheeks scaly. Six branchi- 

 ostegals. Pyloric appendages in small number. 



Australia and New Zealand. 



276. Latieis iiecateia, Eichards. 



Trans. Zool. Soc. III., p. 106, pi. 6, f . 1 .— Gunth. Cat. Fish. II., p. 86. 



Kohart Town '^ Trumpeter. ^^ 

 D. 18/36. A. 3/27. V. 1/4. L. lat. 110. Csec. i^ylor. 4. 



Vert. 14/20. 



The length of the head is one-fourth of the total, the lower 

 nine pectoral rays simple. Vomerine teeth. Back and sides 

 brown, with four straight whitish longitudinal bands. 



Tasmania, Port Phillip. 



277. Lateis ciliaeis, Forst. 



Eich. Ereb. & Terr., p. 37, pi. 26, f . 6-7.— Gunth. Cat. Fishes IL, 



p. 86. 

 D. 17/39. A. 3/32. L. lat. 84. 



The length of the head is one-fifth of the total ; six simple 

 pectoral rays. Vomerine teeth none. 



Port Jackson. 



278. Lateis Foesteei, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 77. 



The " Bastard Trum2)eter " of the Melbourne Fishermen. 



D. 17/40. A. 2/38. L. lat. 120. 



Height of body not quite three-times in the total length, head 



foiu' times and a-half in the same, eye four times and a-half in 



