604 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN EISHES, 



almost to the anal. Greyish-brown (in spirits) each scale with a 

 paler centre. Two rows of deep black, light-margined ocelli 

 along the side of the body — the upper row runs on the third 

 longitudinal row of scales; the under along the fifth. The 

 vertical fins are tipped with brown. A short, black, streak at 

 the base of the pectorals. Yentrals black in the middle, yellow 

 on the sides. 



Bowen, Queensland. Length two and a-half inches. 



489. G-OBius SAUROLDES, Castoln. 

 Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 48. 

 Norman Eiver. 



490. GrOBIUS MICROPHTHALMUS, Guuth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 44, and note, p. 550. 



D. 6/8. A. 7. L. lat. 27. 



Ten series of scales between the origin of the posterior dorsal 

 and anal fins. Head and body very compressed, the height of 

 the body three times and three-fifths in the total length, the length 

 of the head four times. The depth of the head above the prae- 

 operculum is not much less than its length, and much more than 

 its width. Eye rather small, its diameter being one-seventh of 

 the length of the head, equal to width of the interorbital space, 

 and less than the extent of the snout. Cleft of mouth slightly 

 oblique, wide, reaching to the vertical from the posterior margin 

 of the eye, with the jaws equal in front ; a pair of small canine 

 teeth in the front of each jaw. Scales minutely striated and 

 ciliated. The two anterior dorsal spines are the longest, somewhat 

 produced, but much lower than the body. Caudal fin rounded ; 

 the pectoral has no silk-like rays, and reaches to the anal ; ventral 

 reaches to the vent, with the basal membrane well developed. 

 Brownish (in spirits) with irregular, narrow, oblique, darker 

 streaks ; the anterior dorsal fin with two black, longitudinal 



