616 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGrE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



The diameter of the eye is one-fifth of the length of the head, 

 two-thirds of that of the snout ; and four-ninths of the width of 

 the interorbital space. The cleft of the mouth extends to below 

 the middle of the eye. Teeth in villif orm bands. Brownish, the 

 scales with a rather darker centre ; irregular series of pearl- 

 coloured spots along the lower part of the sides ; vertical fins 

 with whitish margins, the second dorsal and caudal with light spots. 



Eockingham Bay. 



513. Eleotris aporos, Bleek. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 109. — Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



1867, XX., p. 62. 



Eleotris inacrolepidota, BL, Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., 111. — Journ. 



Mus. Godeff., V., pi. 112. 



D. 6. 1/8. A. 1/8-9. L. lat. 32-38. Vert. 12/13. 



Ten or eleven series of scales behind the origin of the second 

 dorsal fin and the anal. Head entirely scaly, excepting the front 

 of the snout ; scales on the upper part rather larger than those 

 on the body. Scales minutely ciliated. Height of body is from 

 four to five times in the total length, the length of the head four 

 times. Head obtuse, flat, depressed. The eye occupies the third- 

 seventh of the length of the head, and is one-third of the width 

 of the interorbital space, (in adult specimens). The maxillary 

 extends to the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. 

 Brownish- olive (in spirits), with one or two rows of darker spots 

 along the side ; three oblique streaks from the eye to the opercles, 

 the upper leaving a spot on the base of the pectoral. Fins 

 blackish, the second dorsal and anal with white margin. 



Port Denison. Cape York (Gunther). 



514. Eleotris Darwiniensis, Macl. 

 Agonostoma darwiniense^ Macl. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. 

 II., p. 360, pi. 9, fig. 8. 

 Port Darwin. 



