200 KECOKDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



this authoi" writes of the dorsal and anal fins in the singular, he 

 describes the \ entrals in the plural, which tends to confirm the 

 natural supposition that Castelnau's fish and mine are identical. 

 The characters of this species all point to Peltor-hamphus Giinther, 

 of which one species only P. novK-zealandice' was previously 

 identified. The Victorian fish differs from the description of the 

 New Zealand one, among other characters, by having the dorsal 

 and anal rays covered with scales. 



GoBius, Limueus, 1758. 

 GoBius Mucosus, Giinther. 



Gobius mucosus, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 663, pi. Ixiii., 



fig. A. 

 Gohins depressus, Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, 



(2), i., 1886, p. 4. 



D. vi. i. 10 ; A. i. 9 ; V. i. 5 ,; P. 17 ; C. 17. 



Length of head 3 '6 ; height of body 5-5, and length of caudal 

 3*0 in the total. Eyes 3 "2 in the length of the head, cutting the 

 profile and less than a diameter apart ; their diameter greater 

 than the length of the snout. Cleft of mouth approaching the 

 vertical, the lower jaw the longer ; the maxilla does not nearly 

 reach the orbit. Head much depressed, the skin of which is 

 thrown into sharp folds ; the plications on the snout are irregular, 

 those on the cheeks vertical, a pair of transverse folds on the 

 occiput, followed by two longitudinal ones, and another long pair 

 on each side arising from the margins of the upper and lower jaw 

 respectively ; the inferior aspect of each ramus of the lower jaw 

 bears a series of about a dozen short transverse bars, resembling 

 the teeth of a cog-wheel. 



Fins. — The fourth dorsal spine is the longest, one-half the 

 length of the head ; the anal commences evenly with the soft 

 dorsal and terminates in advance of the posterior rays ; the 

 pectorals attain to below the origin of the soft dorsal, and the 

 ventrals do not reach the vent ; caudal long and pointed. 



Anal papilla small, rounded. 



Colours. — Yellow, marbled with brown ; under surface, as far 

 as the vent, white. All the fins, except the ventrals, spotted 

 with black or dark brown forming bars, longitudinally disposed 

 on the dorsal and anal, and transversely on the pectoral and 



3 Giinther— Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv., 1862, p. 461. 



