600 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Height of body four times and three-quarters in the total length; 

 head three and a-half times. Eyes rather large, placed on the 

 upper surface of the head ; the first dorsal fin rounded, the third 

 spine longest, the caudal is rounded ; pectorals extending to nearly 

 the end of the first dorsal. Colour light grey, with the edges of 

 the scales brown, towards the belly opal and white ; head marbled 

 with white spots, operculum with very minute, black dots ; three 

 large, round, black spots on the sides — opposite the commence- 

 ment of the second dorsal, opposite its termination, and at the 

 root of the tail. The dorsal fins hyaline, spotted with brown, a 

 black sj)ot at the commencement of the first, and the second 

 margined with yellow. Caudal spotted with brown, the spots 

 forming five or six transverse lines, anal white, edged with black ; 

 pectoral yellow with very small dots. 



"Western Port (Castelnau). 



481. GoBius CAUDATUS, Castclu. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 47. 



D. 6/11. A. 11. 



Height of body four times in the length (without caudal) ; 

 head four times ; eye three and a-half times in the length of the 

 head ; lower jaw longer than the upper ; teeth small, some rather 

 longer than others ; the fifth dorsal spine the longest, produced 

 into a short filament ; the last ray of the second dorsal and anal 

 fins somewhat elongate ; the caudal large, pointed, the central 

 rays produced into filaments ; half as long as the body. Colour 

 (dried) light brown, with obscure spots, a dark oblique band from 

 the eyes to the operculum ; fins diaphanous, an obscure band 

 along the middle of the first dorsal, the soft dorsal and anal 

 margined with black ; a few obscure transverse bands on the 

 caudal. 



Melbourne (Castelnau). 



482. GoBius MACULATUS, Oastcln. 

 Besearehes on the Pishes of Australia, p. 20. 



