OF AUSTRALIA. 
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STIGJ1ATOPIIORA ARGUS. 
Stigmatophora Argus, Rich. Proceed. Zool. Society, 1840, 
p. 29. 
Rich. Trans. Zool. Soc. iii., d. 183, 
pi. 7, fig. 2. 
Kaup. Loph., p. 53. 
" Gunther, Catal. vol. viii., p. 190. 
Of a light olive colour • the body covered with oval black 
oscellated spots disposed in longitudinal lines ; the head and 
body without spots. 
This sort is remarkable by its long snout, the absence of 
the caudal, and its long extended dorsal fin. 
Length of specimen seven inches and a half. 
STIGMATOPHORA OLIVACBA. 
Snout rather more than twice the length of the remaining 
part of the head. This contained a little less than six times 
in the total length of the body ; the opening of the mouth is 
upwards ; a longitudinal ridge runs all along the upper surface 
of the snout; operculum without any ridge; body rings 
nineteen ; vent below the middle of the dorsal fin ; egg-pouch 
extending over thirteen rings ; tail formed of about eighty- 
four rings. The pectorals rather large, of eighteen rays ; the 
dorsal of about forty-five ; no caudal; the general colour is a 
light olive, becoming grey on the lower part ; the egg-pouch 
is orange; all the rings present an obscure tinge at their 
junction, and these very feeble transverse bands extend on the 
snout ; total length nine inches. 
LEPTOICHTHYS FISTULARIUS. 
Leptoichthys Fistularius, Kaup. Lophob., p. 52. 
Head five times in the total length ; snout, up to the nostril, 
contained seven times and one-third in the same ; it is long, 
compressed, and unites to the head by a gradual profile ; the 
mouth opens superiorly ; the orbit is contained seven times in 
the length of the head, and the space between the nostril and 
