BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 437 



side with four sharp recumbent spines, one sharp spine beside 

 the nostrils, a ridge of five similar spines from the prseorbital to 

 above the angle of the praeoperculum — one at the angle, two on 

 the operculum, a spiny ridge above the operculum and one of 

 two or three spines on each side of the occiput. The maxillary 

 bone reaches to the vertical from the middle of the eye. The 

 scales on the lateral line mostly end in filaments ; the second 

 anal spine very large. Colour yellowish, densely blotched and 

 marbled with brown, a light coloured band behind the dorsal and 

 anal fins, followed by a brown one of the same size ; root of the 

 tail light-coloured and faintly spotted. 



Endeavour Eiver. 



297. Centropogon marmoratus, Q-unth. 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1863, Vol. XI., p. 136. 



D. 16/9, A. 3/6. L. lat. 68. 



The third to sixth dorsal spines are the longest, half as long 

 as the head ; the second anal spine longer and stronger than the 

 third. Yellowish, marbled with brown. Length three inches. 



Moreton Bay. 



298. Centropogon scorp-enoides, Guich. 



Neosehastes scorpcenoides, Guich., Mem. Soc, Imp. des Sc. Nat. 



Cherbourg. 



Centropogon australis, Casteln., Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., I., p. 81. 



The '' Gurnet ^^ of the Melbourne Market. 

 Height of body four times in the total length, the head three 

 times and a-quarter ; the diameter of the eye is three times and 

 one-third in the length of the head ; mouth extensible. Brown, 

 with the lower parts of the head and body scarlet ; dorsal green 

 with red spots ; caudal similar, with its posterior half black ; anal 

 variegated with red, brown and greenish- white ; pectorals above 



