14 SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF AUSTRALIA, 



Height of body and length of head 4 times in the total length. 

 Body oblong ; the spine of the prfeorbital not very distinct, as in 

 S. inermis, Richards. Eye large. Colour dark, underneath the 

 dorsal fin a darker longitudinal band. A horizontal silvery stripe 

 on the prseorbital. 8 ctm. 



Port Darwin. (Klunzinger.) 



1155. Scolopsis specularis. De Vis. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. Vol. VII., p. 369. 



Queensland. 



1156. Synagris upeneoides. Bleek. 



Gunth. Cat. 1 p. 375. Dentex upeneoides. Bleek. Atl. Ichth. 

 Perc. 11, p. 92. tab. 49, fig. 2. 



B. 6. D. 10/9. A. 3/7. L. lat. 50. 



" The height of the body is 4| times in the total length, the 

 length of the head 4£ ; the diameter of the eye is one-third of 

 the latter and as long as the snout. The upper maxillary reaches 

 to the vertical from the anterior margin of the orbit ; the height 

 of the prseorbital is I5 in the diameter of the eye ; there are three 

 series of scales between the prceorbital and the margin of the 

 prgeoperculum. Six canine teeth in the upper jaw, none in the 

 lower. The spines of the fins slender, flexible ; the middle ones 

 of the dorsal longest, half the height of the body ; the soft portion 

 of the fin lower than the spinous. Caudal deeply forked. Rose- 

 coloured ; the soft dorsal with a yellow longitudinal band near the 

 upper margin." (Bleek.) 



Queensland. (Klunzinger.,) 



Family. SQUAMIPINNES. 

 1157. Chelmo Mulleri. Klunz. 

 Sitzb. der. K. Akad. der Wissensch., 1879, p. 361. 

 D. 9/29-30. A. 3/21. L. lat. 50. L. tr. 9/25 (in front 10/22.) 

 Height of body 2 and length of head ?>\ in the total length. 

 Snout very short, but narrow and tubular, it is 2£ in the 

 length of the head. The prseorbital and prseoperculum are toothed 

 on the posterior margin ; caudal truncate. 



