BY W. MACLEAT, F.L.S. 629 



Height of body tliree-fifths of the length without the caudal 

 fin ; head three times and a-third in the same ; the eye twice and 

 two-thirds in the head. The body is very compressed forming a 

 broad oval ; the anterior profile of the head convex, the crest 

 over the orbit serrated ; the lateral line is elevated, forming a 

 ridge, sinuous and curved strongly downwards towards the end 

 of the dorsal fin, to arch a little over the caudal spine. The tail 

 is forked, the ventral fins have six rays. Colour reddish-brown, aU 

 anterior to the base of the pectorals of a golden colour, four series 

 of large rounded black blotches on the back. From one to two 

 inches in length. 



Torres Straits (Castelnau). 



Genus PEioxunrs, Lacep. 

 A single series of compressed denticulated incisors in each jaw. 

 Tail with a series of several keeled, bony laminae on each side. 

 Scales minute. Branchiostegals five. Air-bladder large, forked 

 posteriorly. Intestinal tract with several circumvolutions ; pyloric 

 appendages five. 



Pacific Ocean. 



344. Peiontjrtjs miceolepidotus, Lacep. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes III., p. 347. 

 D. 8/22. A. 3/21. V. 1/5. Cfec. pylor. 5. 

 Snout moderately produced with the upper profile straight. A 

 series of six laminae on each side of the tail ; a pair of smaU ones 

 above and another below that series. Uniform brown or blackish- 

 brown. 



Port Jackson. 



Genus Naseus, Cuv. & Yal. 

 A single series of slightly compressed incisors, sometimes 

 denticulated, in the jaws. Tail with two (rarely one or three) 



