18 SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF AUSTRALIA, 



Height of body 3-| in the total length. Body elliptic ; profile 

 of head slightly parabolic ; a narrow band of small canine teeth in 

 both jaws ; the maxillary readier to below the anterior margin of 

 the eye. Scales of head small ; forehead without process ; scales 

 of body slightly rough ; lateral line nearly quite straight, its 

 figures form simple obliquely ascending stride. Dorsal spines 

 rather low, not higher than the rays ; those of the anal a little 

 higher than those of the dorsal ; the anal is rather obliquely 

 truncated. The second simple pectoral ray is the longest, but only 

 one- sixth longer than the longest compound one, and reaches to 

 the extremity of the ventrals, which commence under the middle 

 of the pectorals, and do not reach the anus. Caudal fin deeply 

 emarginate, the outer rays being half again as long as the middle 

 ones. Colour ; yellowish with dark nebulose transverse bands, 

 8-9 in number, which commence broad on the back and extend 

 obliquely forwards, the 3rd, 4th and 5th arch shaped or angular 

 forwards, forming each a longitudinal somewhat continuous stripe. 

 The uppermost runs close along the eye, the second over the 

 pectoral to the lower margin of the eye, the third rather indistinct 

 extends along the belly. The dorsal and caudal fins are nebulous 

 or spotted ; mai-gins of all the fins except the pectorals white ; 

 ventrals and anal dark. 16 Ctm, 



Queenscliff. Port Phillip. (Klunzinger.) 



11G5. Chilodactylus Mulhalli. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VII., p. 366. 



Port Jackson. 



Genus Dactylophora. De Vis. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VIII., p. 284. 



1166. Dactylophora semimaculata. De Vis. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VIII., p. 284. 

 South Australia. 



Genus Psilocranium. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VIII. , p. 439. 



