OF AUSTRALIA. U5 
the anterior edge of the orbit. Upper profile very convex, 
falling over the head and convex again on this part ; the 
cheeks covered with small scales ; the operculum with trans- 
verse and rather radiate striae ; the caudal strongly emarginated ; 
pectorals not attaining as far backwards as the ventrals, of 
seventeen rays. 
The general colour is of a light blue ; on the head there 
are, on each side, several broad, oblique, yellow stripes ; the 
body is entirely covered with similar vermicular ones ; they 
are broader than the ground spaces left between them ; on 
the back they are more irregular, and have generally' an 
oblique direction ; on the sides they are flexuous and longitu- 
dinal ; on the lower parts of the body they are more apart, 
and form very interrupted lines or rather longitudinal series 
of oblong blotches. All these lines have a darker border ; the 
spinous part of the dorsal and of the anal and also the Ven- 
trals are irregularly marbled with yellow, but the soft parts of 
these fins have transverse series of small yellow brown 
blotches; the pectorals are entirely of a light greyish 
yellow. 
TEUTHYS PUNCTATUS. 
Amphacanthus Punctatus, Block. Sch., p. 210, 6. 
Harpurus Inermis, Forster, MS. iv., 3. 
This sort appears to come very near to Amphacanthus Sutor 
of Cuvier and Valenciennes; in fact, the few words that 
Dr. Gunther says on this sort in his Catalogue, applies entirely 
to it : " The height of the body is more than one-third of the 
total length, brown, minutely dotted all over with whitish 
but m the original work of the French naturalists I find (vol. x 
p. 148) that the head is contained near six times in the total 
length, and this cannot agree with the present species but 
seems to agree with the Punctatus of Bloch, which' was 
brought by Forster from New Caledonia. 
The height is contained twice and a-half in the length 
without the caudal fin, or twice and three-fourths with it • the 
head is four times in the length to the base of the caudal • 
