620 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOaiTE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Colour liglit olive-green, whitish beneath ; head nearly black ; 

 the fii'st dorsal fin has two longitudinal bands of red spots, the 

 second has three or four of the same ; the caudal has numerous 

 transverse series of small red spots ; ventrals and anal white. 



Yarra River. 



521. Eleotris modesta, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 85. 



D. 6. 1/8. A. 1/9. L. lat. 31. L. transv. 11. 



Elongate ; height of body four times and four-fifths in the 

 total length ; length of head three times and a-half ; eye three 

 times in the length of the head. The snout is shorter than the 

 diameter of the eye, rather depressed, but not very broad ; the 

 cleft of the mouth is oblique, and does not reach to the vertical 

 from the anterior edge of the orbit ; head entirely scaly ; scales 

 of body large, striated and finely serrated. The first dorsal fin 

 somewhat produced into filaments. Colour light yellow, with 

 the upper parts rather brown ; a very small and obscure spot at 

 the upper angle of the base of the pectorals, and a dark faint line 

 along the body to the tail. The dorsal fins are marked with 

 irregular, oblique, transverse spots, and the extremity of the 

 second is black ; the caudal is transversely speckled with brown. 



Port Darwin (Castelnau). Under two inches in length. 



522. Eleotris Castelnaxh, Macl. 

 *Eleotri8 ohscura, Casteln., Proc. Zool Soc, Vict., Vol. II., p. 134. 

 D. 9?/9. A. 8. L. lat. 37-38. L. transv. 11. 

 Head large and broad, its length being four times in the total 

 length ; the space between the eyes is four times and two-thirds 

 in the length of tho head ; the widest diameter of the orbit is 

 one-sixth of the total length ; head naked, some elevated lines on 



*Naine appropriated before by Schlegel, for a Japanese species. 



