BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 543 



bluisli-grey, lighter on the belly, a broad purplish spot on the 

 back behind the head ; sides sometimes covered with minute 

 dark dots. 

 Melbourne. Port Jackson? (Macl. Mus.) 



Genus Ciiorixemus, Cuv. & Yal. 



Body compressed, oblong ; cleft of mouth moderate or wide, 

 dermal productions small, lanceolate, hidden in the skin. Two 

 dorsal fins, the first formed by free S23ines in small number ; the 

 posterior rays of the second dorsal and of the anal, detached or 

 semi-detached, penicillated. Two anal spines separated from the 

 soft portion. Small teeth in the jaws, and on the vomer and 

 palatines. Branchiostegals seven or eight. Pseudobranchi?e. 

 Air-bladder bifurcate posteriorly ; pyloric appendages in great 

 number. 



In most tropical seas. 



373. Chorinemus lysan, Forsk. 



Gunth. Cat. Pishes, II., p. 471. 



Chorinemus Fursteri, Eichards, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 1843, 



XL, p. 24. 



B. 8. D. 7. 1/19. A. 2. 1/18. Vert. 10/16. 



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

 head five and a-half times. The maxillary is very slightly 

 widened and rounded posteriorly and reaches far beyond the 

 vertical from the posterior margin of the eye ; the length of the 

 intermaxillary is more than half that of the head ; the snout is 

 obtuse, and about equal in length to the diameter of the eye. 

 A series of six or eight large, round, brown spots above the 

 lateral line. 



Cape York. Torres Straits. (Chevert Exp.) 



