BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 671 



in spirits uniform sooty brown, with numerous minute blue spots 

 about the head. 



Port Darwin. 



424. CiCHLOPS LiNEATUs, Castolu. 



JDampieria Imeata, Casteln., Researches Fishes of Australia, p. 30. 



D. 1/27. A. 3/-? 



Height one-fourth of the length, length of snout one and a- 

 half times the diameter of the eye ; mouth very oblique with strong 

 canines in both jaws ; dorsal and anal fins prolonged behind, 

 reaching over two -thirds of the tail. Colour in dried specimen 

 yellow with an orange tinge on the back ; sixteen narrow longi- 

 tudinal black stripes on the body, beginning about one-third of 

 its length, and extending to the base of the caudal ; the anterior 

 part of the dorsal is reddish with black spots ; the posterior part 

 black ; pectorals and ventrals yellow. 



Dampier's Archipelago. 



Count Castelnau in his '^Eesearches on the Fishes of Australia," 

 gives a very elaborate description of this fish, making for its 

 reception a genus which he named Dampieria. I cannot, however 

 see sufiicient reason for separating it from Cichlops. 



Grenus Stigmatonotus, Peters. 



Body elliptical, moderately compressed ; mouth deeply cleft ; 

 preeoperculum toothed ; operculum armed, suborbital unarmed, 

 narrow, with large pores ; a band of small pointed teeth in the 

 jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones ; scales ctenoid, lateral 

 line incomplete. A long dorsal fin with fewer spines than rays. 

 Anal spines three. Ventrals 1/5, somewhat before the pectorals ; 

 gill opening wide ; branchiostegals six ; gills three and a-half ; 

 free threadlike pseudobranchise ; lower pharyngeals separated, 

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