BY W. MACLEAY, E.L.S. 607 



longitudinal series in the first, and in transverse ones on the two 

 last ; ventral and anal blackish.. 



Australia (Grunther). Length five to six inches. 



494. GoBiTJS Bynoensis, Eichards. 



Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 1, pi. 1, f. 1-2. — Gunth., Cat. Fishes 



III., p. 70. 



D. 6. 1/16. A. 1/15. L. lat. 65. 



Height of body five times and a-half in total length, length of 

 head five times. Head higher than broad ; snout obtuse ; mouth 

 slightly oblique, teeth of outer series enlarged ; lower jaw with 

 a pair of canines. Width of interorbital space half the diameter 

 of the orbit, which is one-fifth of the length of the head. The 

 first dorsal fin is higher than the second and lower than the body, 

 its distance from the eye is more than that of the snout from the 

 prseoperculum. Caudal fin rounded ; none of the pectoral rays 

 silk-like. Greenish : back with four or five brownish-violet cross- 

 bands ; on each side of the head two brownish- violet, blue-edged 

 longitudinal bands, the lower of which terminates in a dark spot 

 on the upper part of the base of the pectoral fin ; neck with two 

 series of brown, blue-edged ocelli ; dorsal fins dotted with white ; 

 caudal with a brown spot on the upper part of its base ; anal 

 with violet margin ; the other fins rose-coloured. 



Western Australia. Port Essington. 



495. GoBirs Yoigtii, Bleek. 

 Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 72. 

 D. 6. 1/10. A. 1/10. L. lat. 80. 



Height of body seven times in the total length ; length of head 

 four times and four-fifths ; the head higher than broad ; the snout 

 convex, shorter than the eyes, which are very close together, and 

 one-fourth the length of the head. Mouth obHque, jaws nearly 

 equal, teeth of outer series enlarged, a pair of lateral canine teeth 



