32 SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF AUSTRALIA, 



" The height of the body is contained six times in the total 

 length, the length of the head four times and two-thirds. The 

 head is nearly as broad as high, its height being more than one- 

 half its length. The diameter of the eye is one-fourth of the 

 length of the head ; it is situated entirely in the anterior half of 

 the head, interorbital space very narrow. Snout as long as the eye, 

 with the cleft of the mouth oblique, and with the jaws equal 

 in length. The teeth in the jaws form a band, those of the outer 

 series being somewhat enlarged. Dorsal fins separated from each 

 other but close together ; the first is lower than the second, the 

 height of which equals that of the body. The upper pectoral 

 rays silk like ; caudal rounded ; the anal is much higher 

 posteriorly than anteriorly ; its height being equal to that of the 

 second dorsal fin. Greenish, clouded with brownish ; head and 

 body with longitudinal series of numerous white dots ; fins 

 uniform blackish, the first dorsal edged with white superiorly." 



King Geoi'ge's Sound and Victoria. (Klunzinger.) 

 1203. Gobius Tamarensis. Johnston. 



Prcc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1882, p. 120. 



B. 4. D. 6i. A. 1/8. L. lat. 32. P. 16-18. P. 18-19. 



Height of body seven times in total length, the length of head 

 four times, and the greatest breadth behind orbits six times. 

 Head depressed ; eyes approximating towards top of head, looking 

 upwards and outwards. Snout obtuse, convex, one and a-half times 

 breadth of eye, and contained three and a-half times in length of 

 head ; interorbital space, half the breadth of the eye ; head and 

 nape naked. Colour, when alive, greyish. Body and vertical fins 

 marbled with very fine reddish -brown dots. The extremity of the 

 rays of second dorsal and anal fins blackish. There are eleven 

 scales between the anal and the first ray of the second dorsal fin ; 

 caudal fin rounded ; dorsal and anal fin rays one and a-half times 

 as long as the snout, when stretched they do not reach the caudal 

 by a distance gr-eater than their own length." 



Abundant in the Tamar River. Length from 2 to 3J inches. 



Mr. Johnson remarks that the species seems to closely resemble 

 G. lateralis. Macleay. 



