550 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



385. Equula interrupta, Cuv. & Val. 



Guntli., Cat. Eishes II., p. 504. 



D, 8/16. A. 3/14. 



The height of the body is one-half the total length, the length 

 of the head is contained four times and two-thirds in the same. 

 No spines above the orbit ; the cavity on the head is triangular, 

 and twice and a-half as long as broad. The lower prseopercular 

 margin is minutely serrated ; the mandibula ascends in a vertical 

 line. Scales ratlier small ; the lateral line terminates below the 

 origin of the soft dorsal. Back with somewhat irregular vertical 

 blackish streaks, generally interrupted and forming spots. 



Port Essington. 



Family XVIIL, CYTTID^. 



Scombroid fishes with two distinct divisions of the dorsal fin, 

 the spinous portion less developed than the soft. Body elevated, 

 covered witli veiy small or rudimentary scales or bony pro- 

 tuberances. 



Genus Zeus, Cuv. 



Body much compressed and elevated ; cleft of mouth wide. 

 Scales exceedingly small or entirely absent. Two contiguous 

 dorsal fins, the first with nine or ten spines ; the anal with three 

 or four spines ; a series of bony plates along the base of the 

 dorsal and anal fins ; another series on the abdomen. Minute teeth 

 in the jaws and on the vomer ; none on the palatine bones. 

 Seven brauchiostegals. Air-bladder large ; pyloric appendages 

 in very great number. 



Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 



386. Zeus australis, Pichards. 



Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, pp. 36 and 138, pi. 25, f. 1.— 



Casteln., Proc. ZjoL Soc, Victoria, Vol. I. p. 108. 



