4 I / 
Color in alcohol dull brown generally, back with pale olive 
tint. Each scale above lateral line with deeper olive to dusky 
center, so streaks form as longitudinal lines and some examples 
with few traces on sides below lateral line. Opercular spot 
above, about level with pupil and same size, chestnut-brown, 
Narrow slaty-dusky lines across front of head, louped forward, 
correct eye, and lower ones on those from lower eye edge oblique- 
ly forward to preorbital. Slaty line from below hind eye edge 
obliquely forward to preorbital, Lines on front of head variable, 
and sometimes form irregular reticulations. Spinous dorsal 
pale, with dusky blotch above or at ends of fourth to sixth spines 
and traces of sub-basal horizontal pale dusky narrow band, 
Sofy dorsal creamy, with 2 narrow submarginal dusky lines, lower 
oblique on last 2 rays, and parallel behind 4 or 5 similar 
short oblique lines over last half of fin. Caudal pale, with 
faint traces of 5 or 6 narrow oblique dusky streaks or lines 
on each lobe. Anal creamy, edge brownish and basal streaks 
more or less broken in spots. Pectoral pale, with about 7 
dull brown transverse streaks. ‘Yentral pale, except first 
or second rays and membrane between last 2 rays brownish. 
Length 160 to 270 mm. Two from Sydney, and 3 in the Academy 
from Melbourne incuded. The color notes are largely from the 
latter material, as the Wilkes specimens show only faint traces 
of the markings. 
