42 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



and anal (I), iii., xxiv.-xxviii. ; 1+2. A. ii.; 17-21) of the Vic- 

 torian species, than in any T have seen from New South Wales 



(a) 3 Long Bay, New South Wales. 



(b) I Port Jackson, New South Wales — Type/*, heptceolus. 



(c) 1 Port Jackson, New South Wales 



(d) 2 without locality. 



Petraites fasciatus, Macleay. 



(Plate xi., fig. 2.) 



Cristiceps fasciatus, Macleay, Cat. Austr. Fishes (Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, vi., 1881), p. 19. 



Clinus whiteleggii, Ogilhy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xix., 

 1894, p. 371. 



D. iii., xxviii.-xxxi.; 1 + 1. A. ii.; 18-22. V. 2, rarely 3. 



First dorsal spine placed above the hinder margin of the pre- 

 opercle. The two dorsals connected by membrane. The last 

 two rays are rather widely spaced. Caudal peduncle short and 

 broad. A small branched tentacle on the snout, and a short, 

 broad simple one over the eye. Rarely both are large and 

 branched. 



This is the common species living among sea-weeds in pools 

 along the coast. In colour it may be anything from dark green 

 without markings to pale green with darker bands and silvery or 

 transparent markings. Specimens living in the pink coraline 

 sea-weed common on the coast are of a bright pink variegated 

 with brown, throughout which, however, the typical bands and 

 silver spots are maintained. 



Having examined Macleay's type of this species as well as 

 Ogilby's C. tvhiteleggii, I am able to recognise the two as iden- 

 tical, although a comparison of the two descriptions would not 

 lead to such a conclusion. Macleay's specimen is in very bad 

 condition, but is sutliciently good to show all the important 

 features. Ogilby's type is malformed, some of the rays of. the 

 various fins being distorted or absent. The above characters 

 are therefore drawn up from a large series taken by myself at 

 Long Bay, near Sydney. 



(a) 28 Long Bay, New South Wales. 



(b) 1 Jervis Ba} r , New South Wales. — Type C. whiteleggii. 



(c) 1 Port Jackson, New South Wales. — Type C./asci<if"s. 



