BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 551 



'' John Doreyy 

 D. 10/23. A. 4/22. Y. 1/6. 



Height of body two and a-half times in the total length, head 

 three times in the same ; orbit five times in the length of the 

 head. A short pointed backwards spine at the root of each dorsal 

 spine. At the base of the soft dorsal and anal fins there are 

 about seven bony plates armed with one or two spines on each . 

 nine spinous plates between the ventrals and the anus. General 

 colour dark green, with yellow tinges on the sides of the head 

 and body. A large round black blotch about the middle of the side. 



Port Jackson. Port Phillip. 



Dr. Gunther regards this species as identical with the John 

 Dorey of Europe, Zeus faher. 



Genus Cyttus, Gunth. 



Body compressed and elevated, covered with very small scales ; 

 mouth protractile. Two contiguous dorsal fins, the first with eight 

 or nine spines, the anal with two. No bony plates along the base 

 of the dorsal and anal fins. Ventrals with one spine and six or 

 eight soft rays. Minute teeth in jaws and on vomer, none on the 

 palatines. Eight branchiostegals. 



Madeira and Australia. 



387. Cyttus austualis, Bichards. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes II., p. 396. 



Capros aiidralis, Bichards, Yoy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., p. 



137, pi. 59, f. [-5. 



B. 8. D. 9/28. A. 2/30. Y. 1/6. 



The upper and lower profiles of the snout are straight. Scales 

 very small. The spines of the dorsal and ventral fins elongate 

 and flexible, those of the anal short. The ventrals can be received 

 in a sheath on the abdomen, and cover the vent. Silvery. 



Tasmania, South Coasts of Australia. 



