542 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OE AUSTRALIAN' FISHES, 



370. Neptomenus brama, Gunth. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 390. 



D. 7. 1/27. A. 2/21. L. lat. 88. L. transv. 16/25. 

 Heiglit of body three times and a-half in the total length ; 

 length of head four and a-half in the same ; snout obtusely conical, 

 equal in length to the diameter of the eye ; the maxillary feeble, 

 extending to the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye ; 

 posterior edge of prreoperculum emarginate, the angle rounded. 

 Dorsal spines feeble, anal indistinct, soft dorsal and anal fins 

 rather low, with a scaly sheath at the base ; pectorals elongate 

 and pointed, ventrals rather short, attached to the belly by a 

 membrane ; caudal deeply forked. Colour greenish-silvery, with 

 narrow shining longitudinal streaks along the series of scales. 



Tasmania. 



371. Neptomenus dobula, Gunth. 

 Gunth., Proc. Zool. ^oc, Lond., 1869, p. 429. 



D. 7. 1/40, A. 2. 1/23. Yert. 24. 



The length of the head is three times and a-half in the total 

 length, (without caudal fin), the height of the body four times 

 and one-third. Scales small and deciduous. Pectoral fin not 

 quite so long as the head. 



Tasmania. 



372. XEPTOMEiXrs Travale, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Yol. I., p. 119. 



D. 0. 2/30. A. 2. 2/21. L. lat. 93. 



Heiglit twice and two-thirds in the total length ; head four 

 times. Snout short ; eye large ; lower jaw longer than upper, 

 upper part of head naked ; cheeks and operculum scaly ; pra)- 

 operculum emarginate behind and wm-y liiiely denticulated and 

 rayed. Scales small and deciduous ; tail forked. General colour 



