742 ON SOME AUSTHALIAN KLEOTIUX.E, 



to I'i, that of tlie Hat interurljital region 7{ to 8|, diameter of the 

 eye i to 4| in the length of the liead; snout much broader than 

 lonir, rounded in front and sHghtl}' dejiressed, from one-tenth to 

 two-fifths of a diameter longer than the eye. Maxillary not 

 reaching to the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye, its. 

 length 31 to 3^ in that of the head. Eight or nine gill-rakers on 

 the lower branch of the anterior arch, the last ones reduced to 

 serrulate knol)s The space between the origin of the first dorsal 

 fin and the extremity of the snout is as long as or a little longer than 

 its distance from the base of the last soft ray; outer border of the 

 first dorsal fin rounded, the third or fourth ray the longest, 1|- to 

 •>J- in the length of the head, and the last ray when laid back 

 reaches in the ^ to, in the 9 not quite to the origin of the second 

 dorsal; in the 1^ the fourth and fifth, in the 9 the second and 

 third rays of the second dorsal are the longest, If to If in the 

 head : the anal fin originates below the third ray of the second 

 dorsal; the sixth and seventh rays are the longest, as long as the 

 soft dorsal rays : fourth ventral ray not reaching to the vent in 

 either sex, its length 1| to 1| in the head : middle pectoral rays 

 extending to the vertical from the origin of the second dorsal or 

 not quite so far, their length in the ^ subequal to, in the ^ '"^bout 

 one-fifth shorter than that of the head : caudal rounded, ly^ to 

 li in the length of the head; the peduncle stout, as long as or a 

 little shorter than the head, its depth 2 to 2i in its lengthy 

 Genital papilla triangular, as long or nearly as long as the eye, 

 and much longer than wide in the r^; quadrangular, two-thirds 

 or less than two-thirds of the eye, and as long as or but little 

 longer than wide in the 9? i^^ which the posterior border is 

 concave. Scales of the opercle unequal in size, deeply embedded, 

 and more or less non-imbricate; posterior portion of the cheeks 

 with rather small, deeply embedded, non-imbricate scales; a series 

 of small closely set pores from the snout round the upper margin 

 of the eye, extending backwards between the occiput and opercles 

 to the shoulder. 



Purple to olive-green above, ultramarine-blue to sihery below, 

 the sides sometimes tinged with yellow ; the lighter-coloured 



