588 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



D. 1. 8/14. A. 14. 



Length of head three times and t^vo-thirds in the total ; orbit 

 seven and a-haK times in length of head ; the snout is rather 

 angular in front ; the upper surface of the head is smooth and 

 presents faint uninterrupted longitudinal ' lines ; praeopercular 

 spines strong, the lower nearly or quite twice the length of the 

 upper. Greneral colour pink-lilac, covered with numerous irregular 

 orange spots ; the sides yellow ; the fins are transparent and 

 rather grey ; their spines and rays are marbled with orange ; the 

 caudal has four transverse lines of rather large, rounded, orange 

 spots, and its end is black. 



Melbourne ; not common. Length from 20 to 23 inches. 



Grenus Lepidotrigla, Gunth. 



Head parallelepiped, with the upper surface and the sides 

 entirely bony; body with scales of moderate size, regularly 

 arranged. Two dorsal fins, the first much shorter than the second. 

 Three pectoral filaments. Yilliform teeth in both, the jaws and 

 on the vomer, none on the palatine bones. Air-bladder generally 

 with lateral muscles, often divided into two lateral parts ; pyloric 

 appendages in moderate number. 



Indian and Pacific Oceans. Mediterranean Sea. 



458. Lepidotrigla papilio, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 197. 



D. 9/14. A. 14. L. lat. 55. Caec. pylor. 7. 



Scales very regular, of moderate size, with spines on the free 

 margin, those of the lateral line with a spiny keel. Prseorbital 

 not projecting beyond the snout. The spines of the dorsal rather 

 strong and bent ; the spines along the base of the dorsal fin strong, 

 prominent, compressed. The pectoral reaches to the sixth anal 

 ray. The first dorsal with a black spot between the fourth and 

 seventh spines. 



Port Jackson (Macl. Mus.) 



