BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.&, 599 



brown, with, eight or nine fascia -like blotches on the sides, the 

 sides of the head are marked with brown bands as in G. frenatus, 

 there are numerous brown spots on the head and lips, and one 

 on the lower part of the ox^erculum, the scales of the body have 

 each a pale pearly or bluish spot ; the first branchiostegal also is 

 margined at the angle with black. The fins are for the most 

 pale and semitransparent ; both dorsals are dotted with brown ; 

 there are also minute brown dots on the rays of the tail, except 

 on the upper and lower margins and the extremity ; the ventrals 

 are sometimes darker in centre. 



Port Jackson. 



479. GoBius piCTiJs, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, I., p. 124. 



D. 8. 1/10. A. 1/9. 



The height of the body is five and a-half times in the total 

 length; the lower jaw longer than the upper ; scales large; the 

 second dorsal spine longer than the others. Colour light lilac, 

 beneath white ; on the head are numerous small, brown spots, 

 and on the back and sides also there is a longitudinal line of 

 black spots with terminals and a large one at the root of the 

 caudal, on which are also two or three irregular black spots ; 

 the pectorals are yellow ; the ventrals white ; the eye is yellow 

 with an external red circle ; the first dorsal is white with two 

 broad, longitudinal brown bands ; the second dorsal is white, 

 diaphanous, with the spine brown and the rays variegated with 

 brownish red, and a broad terminal brown band ; the caudal has 

 three transverse brown-light-red bands ; the anal is white. 



St. Kilda, Melbourne (Castelnau). 



480. (jobixjs pulchellus, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, I., p. 125, 



D. 6/12. A. 1/9. L. lat. 23, 



