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KATHETOSTOMA. 
This genus was formed by Dr. Grunther on a sort of TJrano- 
scopus of Bloch, remarkable by the total absence of scales. 
KATHETOSTOMA liETE. 
Uranoscopus Isevis, Bloch., Sehneid. system, page 47, pi. 8. 
— Guv. ^ Val., Y. iii., page 319. 
Gunther, Catalogue, v. ii., page 231. 
{Stone Lifter d) 
Breadth of head two and a-half times in the length, to the 
base of the caudal ; length of head, from the extremity of the 
upper jaw to the centre of the posterior part, four times in the 
same ; the long spines of the shoulder straight or directed rather 
externally. 
The general colour is of an uniform brown on the upper parts 
and white below. On the sides of the head, and on the line of 
separation between the brown and the white there is a reddish 
pink tinge ; the fins are brown, with the end of the caudal and 
the edge of the pectorals pink ; the anal is of this last colour. The 
eyes are red, spotted on their limb with black in very old speci- 
mens, and yellow in others ; the lips are red. 
It is rather common on the Melbourne Market, but is not 
generally eaten. I have a large specimen, which is nearly 
18 inches in length, but this sort does not usually measure more 
than half that size. 
I have seen several times small specimens not more than six to 
seven inches long, which may, perhaps, belong to a different 
species ; they are not quite so broad, the breadth of their head 
being three times in the total length to the base of the caudal, 
and the long spines of the shoulder being longer in proportion, 
and directed rather inv^ards. The general colour of this variety 
is a greyish yellow, with two broad black transverse bands on 
the body ; caudal black, bordered with pink, as are also the pec- 
torals and the dorsal. Eye yellow. 
Cuvier’s specimen, which had been brought from Austi'alia 
by Peron, belongs to this latter variety ; Bloch’s, which he 
describes from a drawing communicated to him by Latham, was, 
on the contrary, entirely brown. 
The fins have D. 16. C. 10. A. 13. P. 17. V. 1/5. 
