436 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGtJE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



continuous dorsal fin with twelve or fifteen spines. No pectoral 

 appendages. Villiform teeth, in the jaws, on the vomer and the 

 palatine bones. No cleft behind the fourth gill. 



Australian and Indian Seas. 



294. Centropogon atjstralis, White. 



White, Voy. N.S. Wales, p. 266.— Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 128. 



D. 15/9. A. 3/5. 



Scales very small ; the pectoral fin reaches to the origin of the 

 anal : the third dorsal spine is the longest, once and a-half in the 

 length of the head ; the second anal spine is longer than the third ; 

 the maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior margin of 

 the eye. Brownish (in spirits), with five rather irregular dark 

 cross -bands, the first from the origin of the dorsal, the fourth on 

 the base of the caudal, the fifth across the tail. 



Port Jackson, 



295. Centropogon robtjstus, Gunth. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 128. 

 D. 15/9. A. 3/5. L. lat. 85., 



Scales small ; the pectoral fin does not reach to the vent ; the 

 fourth and fifth dorsal spines are the longest, their length being 

 less than half that of the head ; the second and third anal spines 

 equal ; the maxiUary reaches to the vertical from the middle of 

 the eye. Brownish, marbled and variegated with blackish. 



Eastern Eivers of New South Wales. 



296. Cextropogon echik-atus. n. sp. 



D. 13/8. A. 3/5. 



Body compressed, the height a little less than one-third of the 

 total length. Head strongty armed, the space between the eyes 

 less than the diameter of the orbit, the supraorbital ridge on each 



