376 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIEXY 



SCATOPHAGUS MULTIPASCIATUS. 



I have obtained, at Sydney, a very pretty variety of this species. 

 It is a very large specimen, measuring sixteen inches in length ; 

 of a beautiful light grey colour, with the twelve transverse bands, 

 of a fine black, and all of equal length and breadth ; the caudal 

 is rather rounded. 



In some specimens, a part of the transverse bands disappear. 

 I have one in which five alone are visible. I believe this to be 

 Ghcetodon tetracmitlius of Lacepede. In that case, the sort would 

 have to bear the last specific name. In my paper on the fishes 

 of the Norman River, I mention that specimens from that part 

 seem diflerent from the ordinary muUifasciatus, and I proposed to 

 call them alternans {Altermans by misprint). 



SCORPIS iEQUIPINNIS. 



Scorpis (squipinnis, Richard; Ereb. and Terror, Fishes, p. 121. 



Height, twice and-a-half in the total length of the fish ; head, 

 four times in the same ; body very compressed, covered with 

 rather small scales ; dorsal with ten low spines and twenty-seven 

 rays ; anal with three spines, and also twenty-seven rays ; the 

 spines increase in length backwards ; the rays of the dorsal and 

 anal decrease in height as they extend backwards, and none of 

 them are elevated. 



The colour is of a dark brown, rather lighter towards the 

 belly ; the upper and lower edges of the caudal are black. 



Length over one foot. 



Cheilodactylus fuscus. 



Six simple rays in the pectorals ; the upper one not much 

 longer than the branched ones ; the following very long, its 

 free part being very nearly one-half of its length, the others 

 become gradually shorter; dorsal scarcely notched; the spiny 

 part formed of seventeen spines, of which the first is rather 

 short and the fourth the longest ; this fin is inserted nearly on 

 the perpendicular from the posterior edge of the orbit ; the back 

 is gibbous ; there is an eminence on the anterior edge of the 

 orbit ; the caudal is strongly emarginate ; the anal has three 

 spines and nine rays. 



Uniform brown ; one foot long. 



