BY W. MACLEAY, E.L.S. 561 



404. ECHENEIS REMOEA, L. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 378. 



" Suching Fish^'' of the EngKsh. 



D. 16-18/22-24. A. 25. C^c. pylor. 6. Vert. 12/15. 



The length of the disk is three times and one-sixth in the total ; 

 the width of the body between the pectorals five and a-haK. 

 Caudal fin subcrescentic ; dorsal and anal not continued to the 

 caudal. Mouth rounded. Colour brown. 



Port Essington. Bass' Straits. 



405. ECHENEIS NATJORATES, L. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes II., p. 384.— All. & Macl., Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 321. 



D. 22-25/33-41. A. 32-38. Vert. 14/16. 



The length of the disk is four times and a-half to four and 

 three-fifths in the total, or twice the width of the body between 

 the pectoral fins ; caudal fin subcrescentic in mature, more or 

 less convex in immature, and very much produced in the middle 

 in young specimens, Mouth rounded with the lower jaw pointed. 

 Brown, generally a blackish band, edged with whitish, from the 

 snout, through the eye, along the side of the body and the tail, 

 sometimes uniform, sometimes irregular blotches instead of the 

 band. 



Darnley Island (Chevert Exp.) North Coast. 



Family XXII. TEACHINID^. 



Body elongate, low, naked or covered with scales. Teeth in 

 viUiform bands, with pointed and conical canines in some of the 

 genera ; no molars or trenchant teeth. The infraorbital ring 

 does not articulate with the prseoperculum. One or two dorsal 

 fins, the spinous portion always much less developed, and shorter 

 than the soft ; the anal similarly developed to the soft dorsal ; 

 ventrals with a spine and five or six rays. GiU opening more or 



