128 DR. RICHARDSON'S DESCRIPTION OF AUSTRALIAN FISH. 



In. Lin. 



Length of caudal (central rays) 12 



Length of caudal lobes 2 2 



Length from diaphragm to csecal tip of stomach 2 3 



Length of csecal tip beyond the ascending branch 7 



Length of longitudinal diameter of nearly globular gizzard .... 8^ 



Length of pyloric cpeca from 9 lines to 1 1 



Length from pylorus to rectum 100 



Length of rectum 2 



Length of whole alimentary canal from pharynx, about 15 



Clinus despicillatus, Bull-head. 



Clinus despicillatus, Rich., Zoolog. Journ. June 1839, p. 90. 



Tab. VL Fig. 2. 



CI. hrunneus, maculis hepaticis sex in summo dorsi instructis infraque fasciatim per 

 latus descendentibus ; macuUsque tribus ad basin pinna cauda ; tentaculis narium 

 geminatis, minutis ; tentaculis superciliaribus brevissimis palmatis ; squama mi- 

 nut(e. 



This fish, known at Port Arthur by the name of ' Bull-head,' is considered to be 

 unfit for food : it hides under stones. The figure, which is drawn of the natural size, 

 represents it so accurately that a lengthened description is unnecessary ; indeed, it 

 bears so close a resemblance to Clinus perspicillatus , and corresponds so nearly to the 

 description of that fish in the ' Histoire des Poissons,' that it may prove, on an actual 

 comparison of specimens, to be only a variety. It appears, however, to have a thicker 

 body, a larger head and a smaller eye, and wants the nuchal marks which give the ap- 

 pellation of ' spectacled ' to that species, though the configurations of colour on the 

 body do not otherwise differ materially. 



There are six roundish blotches on the dorsal, each placed partly on the back, partly 

 on the fin, and formed of a congeries of irregular spots : an equal number of vertical 

 spotted bands descend the sides, and there are some smaller intermediate dottings. 



The sides of the head, and the edges of the dorsal and anal fins, are also thickly spot- 

 ted with umber-brown ; and there are three rows of spots on the pectoral, as many on 

 the caudal, with three large spots at the base of the latter. The scales are small and 

 depressed as in perspicillatus ; there is a bifid cin-hus at the nostrils, and a very short 

 palmated one with fine branchlets on the upper margin of the orbit. 



Kays.— Br. 6-6 ; P. 14 ; V. 2 ; D. 36|4 ; A. 2|25 or 26 ; C. 14. 



The inner ventral ray has a very short branchlet at its base. The three first dorsal 

 rays are a little apart from the succeeding ones, though connected by a slightly notched 

 membrane. The fin is nearly of equal height throughout, rising a little where it is sup- 

 ported by the soft rays, but rounded off by the shortening of the two last. The mem- 



