562 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



less wide ; five, six, or seven brancliiostegals ; pseudobrancliise ; no 

 prominent anal papilla. 



Group A. Urmioscopina. 

 Eyes on the upper surface of the head ; lateral line continuous. 



Genus Katheto stoma, Gunth. 



Head large, broad, and partly covered with bony plates ; body 

 somewhat cylindrical, cleft of mouth vertical. Scales none. One 

 continuous dorsal fin ; ventrals jugular ; pectoral rays branched ; 

 some bones of the head armed. Six branchiostegals ; air-bladder 

 none. 



Australian Seas. 



406. Kathetostoma l^eve, B1. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes II., p. 231. 



'' Sto7ie Lifter " of Melbourne. 

 D. 17. A. 17. V. 1/5. 



The length of the head is three times and two-thirds in the 

 total. Three spines on the inferior margin of the preeoperculum, 

 two below the mandibula, two on the throat. Colour in spirits 

 brownish above, yellowish below. 



Tasmania. Melbourne. 



Genus Leptoscopus, Gill. 



Head as in Kathetostoma , but entirely covered with soft skin, 

 body elongate, mouth nearly vertical ; scales small, cycloid. One 

 continuous dorsal fin; ventrals jugular; teeth viUiform; no 

 canines. Opercles without external spines ; cavity of gills very 

 wide, partially opened above. Six branchiostegals ; pseudo- 

 branchiae ; no air-bladder. 



Australian Seas, 



