BY W. MACIiEAY, F.L.S. 623 



Ten series of scales between the origin of the second dorsal fin 

 and the anal. Height of body one-seventh of the total length ; 

 the length of the head one-fourth. Head flat ; snout longer than 

 the eye ; lips thick; lower jaw projecting; mouth oblique, not 

 reaching to the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye ; 

 distance between the eyes more than their diameter. Scales 

 rather large, ciliated and some striated, extending on the top of 

 the head as far as the eyes ; fins large, caudal rounded ; anal 

 papilla broad and flat. Colour in spirits, yellowish-brown, with 

 round brown spots on the cheeks and upper part of the sides of 

 the body. Fins yellow : the dorsals spotted with brown, in about 

 three longitudinal series, the caudal minutely spotted with brown 

 on the rays in about eight transverse series. 



Eopes' Creek (Macl. Mus.) 



531. Eleoteis lineata, Casteln. 



Researches on the Fishes of A.ustralia, p. 24. 



D. 7/14. A. 14. L. lat. over 70. 



Head three times and a-quarter in the length without the 

 caudal fin. Body elongate ; caudal fin pointed ; the fourth ray 

 of the first dorsal elongate, the thii^d slightly so. Coloiu' a light 

 lilac-grey ; a longitudinal pink stripe, narrowly bordered with 

 black, runs along the middle of the body, three similar stripes 

 run on the head and opercles below the eye ; the first dorsal fin 

 is also spotted in the same way, and the elongated ray is black ; 

 an obscure spot at the base of the caudal. 



Cape York. Darnley Island (Chevert Exp.) 



532. Eleotris etjsca, B1. 



Grunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 125. — Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 1867, XX., p. 62. 



D. 6. 1/8. A. 1/8. L. lat. 60-65. Vert. 11/14. 



