584 DESCRIPTIVE CATAIiOaUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



belly wlutish, fins yellow with small black spots and lines ; tbe 

 upper half of the first dorsal is black ; the anal is white termin- 

 ating in black tipped with orange ; sides of head marbled with 

 yellow. 

 Oueensland. 



450. PLATYCEPHALrS CINEREXJS, Gunth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1871, p. 661. 



D. 1. 7/12. A. 12. L. lat. 120. 



The length of the head is two-sevenths of the total, (without 

 caudal), its width between the preeopercular spines is once and 

 three-fourths in its length. Upper surface of head smooth, with- 

 out spines, except a minute one in front of the eye. Preeopercular 

 spines short, subequal in length, or the lower somewhat longer. 

 Maxillary teeth villiform in a broad band, with two pair of distinct 

 canine teeth behind on the side of the symphysis ; mandibulary 

 and palatine bands much narrower, with a series of longer conical 

 teeth ; vomerine band continuous, crescent shaped, narrowest in 

 the middle, broadest towards each extremity, where also some 

 larger conical teeth are mixed with the villiform teeth. Inter- 

 orbital space but slightly concave, scaly, its width equal to the 

 diameter of the eye, which is contained twice and one-third in 

 the length of the snout. Eye without tentacle ; the isolated dorsal 

 spine short and stifi. Upper parts nearly uniform blackish-ash ; 

 dorsal fins without spots, transparent ; caudal mottled with black, 

 without bands ; pectorals and ventral fins brown, with whitish 

 reticulations. 



South Australia. 



451. Platycephalus inops, Jenyns. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes II., p. 180. 



D. 1. 7/12. A. 12. 



