BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 606 



stripes, the lower of which is dilated into a blackish blotch 

 posteriorly ; the second dorsal M'ith three rather irregnlar, serrated 

 blackish bands, with white spots between them ; caudal dotted 

 with brown ; anal blackish. 



Australia (Q-unther) . Under two inches in length. 



491. GoBius NUCHiFASciATUs, Guuth. 



Journal Mus. GodefP., Band I., Heft. 4, p. 90, 



D. 6/12. A. 9. L. lat. 25. 



Nine longitudinal rows of scales between the second dorsal fin 

 and the anal. The length of the head is rather more than the 

 height of the body and is two-sevenths of the total length without 

 the caudal fin. The head is longer than high, and higher than 

 broad. Snout much shorter than the eye, which is of moderate 

 size. Cleft of the mouth oblique, reaching to beneath the middle 

 of the orbit, with a somewhat projecting under jaw. Eyes close 

 together. Two or three canine teeth on each side of the under 

 jaw. The head, and nape nearly to the dorsal fin without scales. 

 The ventral fins cover the anal. The dorsal fins are scarcely so 

 high as the body beneath them, but the second and third lajs are 

 prolonged into very fine filaments. Caudal fin rounded. Body 

 uniformly greenish, three grey, dark-bordered, oblique bands 

 over the nape, curved forwards on the side of the head. The 

 foremost under the eyes extends to the posterior end of the 

 maxillary bone. The second dorsal, the caudal, and the anal fins 

 finely spotted. 



Bowen (Queensland). Length one and a-quarter inch. 



B. Scales small, L. lat. 50 or more. 



492. GoBius PAPUExsis, Cuv. & Val. 

 Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 49. 



D. 6. 1/12. A. 1/13. L. lat. 75-80. 



