596 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



f ourtli ; the latter is nearly half as high as long, a quarter less 

 broad than high. The eye occupies the second quarter of the 

 length of the head ; the width of the interorbital space is one 

 haK of the diameter of the eye. Snout short ; teeth small. Head 

 and neck naked. The dorsal fins equal in height, as high as the 

 body ; the second spine sometimes produced, filiform ; caudal 

 rounded ; none of the pectoral rays silk-like. Pale ochreous ; 

 head, body, dorsal, and caudal fins irregularly spotted with black, 

 some of the spots being very large ; caudal and anal fins with 

 black margins. 



North-west Coast. Port Darwin. Darnley Island. 



472. GfoBius DARNLEYENSis, All. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. "Wales, Vol. I., p. 331, pi. 12, fig. 1. 

 Darnley Island (Chevert Exp.) 



473. Q-OBius NiGEiPiNNis, AU. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. AVales, Vol. I., p. 332, pi. 12, fig. 2. 

 Palm Islands (Chevert Exp.) 



474. GoBirs maxillaris, Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 357, pi. 9, fig. 2. 

 Port Darwin. 



475. GoBius FRENATTJS, Gunth. 

 Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 39. 



D. 6. 1/10. A. 1/10. L. lat. 35. 



Ten series of scales between the second dorsal and the anal fin. 

 Height of body nearly six times in the total length, the length of 

 head four times and a-haK ; the head is higher than broad ; the 

 snout obtuse, convex, much longer than the eye ; the cleft of the 

 mouth oblique, jaws equal; the maxillary reaches the vertical 

 from the anterior margin of the eye. Teeth of the outer series 



