608 DESCRIPTITE CATALOGrE OF ArSTRALIAN FISHES, 



in the lower jaw. Head and neck naked. The first dorsal fin is 

 much higher, the second lower than the body ; the length of the 

 caudal is four times and a-quarter in the total. Grreenish : with 

 eight brownish cross-bands ; head with round, blue, darker- 

 edged spots ; the first dorsal spine broadly annulated with brown, 

 a black spot between the fourth and fifth spines ; the second 

 dorsal fin blue spotted, and with a blue longitudinal line near the 

 margin ; caudal orange-coloured, superiorly and inf eriorly violet, 

 superiorly with two oblique blue streaks ; the other fins violet. 



Port Essington. Cape York. 



496. GrOBiTJS FiLAMENTOsrs, Castoln. 

 Casteln., Researches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 19. 



D. 6/11. A. 11. L.lat. 55. 



Height of body seven times and one-third in the total length, 

 the head four times and two-thirds ; the diameter of the eye is 

 one-fifth of the length of the head, and twice the width of the 

 interorbital space ; the snout is longer than the eye ; the cleft of 

 the mouth oblique ; the maxillary reaches beyond the vertical 

 from the anterior morgin of the eye ; scales of body much larger 

 towards the posterior portion. The last spine of the first dorsal 

 fin terminates in short filaments ; the two first rays of the second 

 dorsal are somewhat prolonged, and the posterior rays are 

 prolonged beyond the base of the caudal. The caudal is pointed, 

 the middle rays elongate ; the pectorals are large, the rays 

 filamentary. Brownish-black (in spirits); the head bluish, the 

 fins black ; the dorsals, caudal, and anal bordered with yellow ; 

 the base of the pectorals and ventrals white. 



South Australia. 



497. GrOBius MicROLEPiDOTus, Castelu. 



Casteln., Eesearches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 20. 



Anterior dorsal fin with six spines ; scales very minute, about 

 85 in a lateral line ; height of body four times and a-third in the 



