250 RECORDS OP THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



This variety appears to be quite similar to G. lateralis, Macleay, from 

 Southern Australia, in both form and the disposition of its colour-marking, 

 but the large dark lateral spots are always elongate and disposed obliquely 

 in examples from near Sydney, instead of being rounded. Local examples 

 exhibit the same variation in the relative lengths of their dorsal and anal 

 rays as noted in South Australian specimens. 



The specimen figured is 56 mm. long. Not being full-grown, its fin- 

 rays are shorter than in older examples, but it exhibits the chaiactenstic 

 marking of the variety. 



Locs. — Parramatta River estuary and Rose Bay, Port Jackson. Lake 

 Illawarra, New South Wales. A single example in the old collection of 

 the Australian Museum is said to have been obtained at Lord Howe 

 Island. 



Genus Waitea, Jardaii and Seide. 



Waitea maxillakis, Macleay. 



(Plate XXXV., fig. 3.) 



Gohius maxillaris, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1878, p. 357, 

 pi. ix., fig. 2. 



D. vi/11 ; A. 10 ; P. 17 ; V. i/5 ; C. 15. Scales about 43 ; 1. tr. 16. 

 Depth 4"1 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 3 in the same. Orbit 

 (not eye) 3*1 in the head ; interorbital width 5"2, snout 16 in the orbit. 

 Depth of caudal peduncle 2" 5 in the head. 



Head apparently naked, showing no mucous system, and onl}- the 

 usual preopercular, nuchal, occipital and rostral pores. Eye of moderate 

 size, the orbit cutting the profile ; interorbital space very narrow, less 

 than one-fifth the width of the orbit. Snout shorter than the orbit, its 

 profile very oblique. Anterior nostril with dermal margins, the posterior 

 a lai'ge open pore. Maxillary slender, produced backwai-d towai'ds the 

 preopercular angle ; mandible piojecting beyond the premaxillaries. 

 Teeth in a villiform band in each jaw, premaxillaries with an outer 

 row of enlarged, cardifoimi, curved, movable teeth ; mandibular teeth 

 ending on each side in two or three small, fixed canines : palate and 

 tongue toothless. Tongue truncate anteriorly. 



Body compressed, covered with strongly cteiioid scales of moderate 

 size, which extend forward to above the pectoral base and on the thorax ; 

 the area before the dorsal fin and the base of the pectoral are now naked, 

 but may have been scaly in life. A small genital papilla. 



First dorsal originating just behind the pectoi"al, its spines iilamentous; 

 the first is a little longer than the head, the following shorter ami 

 deci-easing backwards. Second doi-sal increasing in height backAvard to 

 the penultimate ray, which is as long as the head without the opeT'culnm. 

 Anal originating a little behind the second dorsal and terminating in 

 advance of it ; it is of similar form to that fin, and but little lower. 

 Pectoral without free rays, I'ounded, and reaching to above the second 

 anal ray. Ventrals large, inserted a little before the pectorals, and almost 

 reaching the anal. Caudal iipparenlly lounded. 



