434 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



the vertex witli a quadrangular groove, either square or broader 

 than long, and with, spines on each corner ; a deep groove below 

 the anterior angle of the orbit. No palatine teeth. The third 

 and fourth dorsal spines longest, but shorter than the anal spines. 

 Eed, marbled with brown and bluish-white ; pectoral fins spotted 

 or banded with black anteriorly, caudal with brown cross-bands. 



Port Darwin. 



Genus Glyptauciien, Gunth. 



Head and body compressed ; crown of the head with a deep 

 saddle-like impression. Scales very small. Prpoorbital, pree- 

 operculum and operculum armed. Dorsal fin continuous, the 

 spinous portion much more developed than the soft ; anal with 

 three spines. No pectoral appendages. Villiform teeth in the 

 jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals. 



Australia, one species. 



291. Glyptauchen panduratus, Eichards. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, pi. 1, f. 3-4.— Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 121. 



D, 17/7. A. 3/6. V. 1/5. 



The cleft of the mouth reaches to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye ; the seventh dorsal spine is the longest ; the 

 second anal is as long, but stouter than the third ; the pectoral 

 is very large and reaches nearly to the origin of the anal. 



King George's Sound. Length five and a-half inches. 



Genus Pterois, Cuv. 

 Head and body compressed, the former armed with spines on 

 its upper surface and on the sides, and provided with skinny 

 flaps ; no groove on the occiput. Scales moderate or small. One 

 dorsal fin deeply notched, anal short ; the spines and rays of 

 some of the fins very elongate and generally free, but branched ; 

 no pectoral appendages. Yilliform teeth in the jaws and on the 



