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Height (in front of the anus) 5 times in the length, length of 

 head six times. Body elongate, compressed : profile of head 

 parabolic ; snout obtuse, short, teeth in both jaws, arranged in a 

 band in front, and on the sides in a row short and blunt. Teeth 

 on the vomer, none on the palatines ; the maxillary reaches to 

 below the middle of the eye ; space between the eyes narrower 

 than the orbit. Head and occiput nearly naked ; body covered 

 with small indistinct round scales. Lateral line only visible on 

 the anterior part of the body. The dorsal fin begins over the 

 operculum, and gets higher towards the caudal with which it is 

 connected with a membrane ; anal fin similar, also with simple 

 flexible rays. 



Colour brown with darker spots, marbled, throat sometimes 

 white speckled ; fins black speckled, marbled with some lighter 

 spots ; pectoral fins lighter with dark spots. 



Allied to C. cottoides and desincillatus. Length, 15 Ctm. 



Port Phillip. (Klunzinger.) 



1218. Cristiceps tristis. Klunz. 



Archiv. f. Naturg., 1872, p. 31. Sitzb. der K. Akad. der 

 Wissensch., 1879, p. 392. 



D. 3/19/5. A. 2/24. P. 11. V. 3. C. 9. 



Height 5 1 in length. Body elongate, very much compressed. 

 Profile of head nearly straight. Snout pretty long ; lips much 

 developed : jaws ecpial ; on both and on the vomer a band of small 

 hair-shaped teeth, broader in front of the prsemaxillary. The 

 maxillary reaches to below and rather behind the middle of the 

 eye. Orbital cirrhus over the middle of the eye, flattish and 

 fringed ; nasal cirrhus small, tubular and with a flat flap above. 

 Head and nape nearly naked and smooth. The first part of the 

 dorsal fin is on the occiput over the prasoperculum, it is higher 

 considerably than the rest of the fin, with which it is -connected by 

 a membrane. The dorsal rays are pretty strong, and the fin 

 membranes form a flap behind their apices ; the fin membrane 

 extends from the last dorsal ray to the base of the caudal fin. The 

 anal fin commences under the 9th ray of the 2nd division of the 



