BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 25 



flat posteriorly, and reaches beyond the vertical from the centre of 

 the eye. The length of the intermaxillary is contained one and 

 two-third times, or twice in that of the head. The snout, in 

 mature fishes, is nearly twice as long as the diameter of the eye. 

 A series of rounded indistinct blackish spots above the lateral 

 line, sometimes a second j-ow beneath, sometimes both absent. An 

 indistinct blackish streak from above the eye to the shoulder. Top 

 of the dorsal black. 



Fort Jackson (Macleay), Port Denison (Klunzinger.) 



1183. Equula splexdens. Cuv. and Val. 



Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 501. Kner Novara reise, p. 163. 



D. 8/15. A. 3/14. Yert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is 2\ to 2| in the total length, the 

 length of the head four times. The upper profile is much more 

 convex than the lower, A pair of small spines above the anterior 

 margin of the orbit ; the cavity on the head is about twice as 

 long as broad. The lower prteopercular margin is finely serrated, 

 and its length is 1J in that of the mandible, the latter is slightly 

 concave, and ascends at an angle of about 35°. The length of the 

 second dorsal spine is three-quarters of that of the head. Scales 

 small. A black blotch on the spinous dorsal. 



Port Denison. (Klunzinger.; 



Species 384. Equula edentula. Bl. 

 I have no doubt that E. coballa. Cuv. and Val., mentioned by 

 Dr. Klunzinger as coming from Port Darwin and Cleveland Bay, 

 is identical with E. edentula. 



Equula Novce Hollandice, Sleindachner from Cleveland Bay and 

 Parequula bicomis of the same author from Hobson's Bay, 

 Victoria, are both unknown to me and I have never seen the 

 descriptions. 



Gen. Lactarius. Cuv. and Val. 



Body oblong, compressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate 

 size ; cleft of the moutli wide, oblique, with the lower jaw 

 prominent. Teeth in the jaws small, with one or two pairs of 

 strong canines ; teeth on the vomer and the palatine bones. 





