BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 597 



enlarged, a canine tooth on each, side of the lower jaw. The 

 width of the interorbital space is somewhat less than the diameter 

 of the eye, which is nearly one-seventh of the length of the head. 

 Head and nape naked. The dorsal fins are ecj[ual in height, and 

 lower than the body, the second, third, and fourth spines are the 

 highest, terminating in very fine short filaments ; caudal fin 

 rounded, one-fifth of the total length ; the ventral reaches nearly 

 to the vent ; none of the pectoral rays silk-like. Brown, (in 

 spirits) with darker spots ; head with indistinct darker spots ; a 

 blackish band edged with lighter from the maxillary to the lower 

 part of the root of the pectoral, another, narrower, and sometimes 

 indistinct, runs parallel to the former to the upper part of the 

 root of the pectoral ; dorsals with a transparent margin, the 

 anterior brownish, the posterior with oblique blackish lines ; the 

 upper half of the caudal with brown crescent shaped dots between 

 the rays, anal, ventral and pectoral blackish ; the latter with the 

 base of lighter colour and with two blackish spots produced by 

 the bands described. 



Australia (Gunther). 



476. GoBius BiFHENATUs, Kucr. 

 Kner., Yoy. Novara, Fishes, p. 177, pi. 7, fig. 3, 



Gohius hassensis, Casteln., Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, I., p. 123. 



D. 6/11. A. 11. L. lat. 38-40. 



Height of body seven times and one-third in the total length ; 

 head four times and two-thirds ; eye four times and a-third in 

 length of the head ; no canine teeth. Head and nape naked ; 

 caudal fin as long as the head and pointed ; no silk-like pectoral 

 rays. Colour lightish- grey, rather darker on the back, a brown 

 band from the eye to the upper edge of the root of the pectoral 

 fin, a second descends obliquely from beneath the first, to the 

 lower part of the pectoral, both bands distinctly marked on the 

 base of the fin. The dorsal fins are marked by a longitudinal 



