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at the fore-part of a groove, which runs backwards to the anus. The 

 first dorsal is low, nearly even, and contains eight spines, which are 

 united to each other and to the second dorsal by a notched mem- 

 brane that reaches above their middles. The drawing also indicates 

 a short spine at the base of the first ray of the second dorsal, though 

 only eight spines in all are enumerated by Forster. The fore-part 

 of the soft fin is the highest, and forms a rounded peak, rising 

 abruptly one-fourth above the succeeding rays, which beoome gra- 

 dually and evenly shorter. The last ray is not elongated. The anal 

 spines are stronger, and nearly as long as the dorsal ones, and are in 

 like manner connected by a notched membrane to the soft part of the 

 fin. This is similar in form to the opposing dorsal, excepting that 

 it wants the projecting peak at its beginning. Both it and the se- 

 cond dorsal stand in a furrow formed by a low fillet of integument on 

 each side. The caudal is deeply forked. The following is Forster's 

 enumeration of the rays :— Br. 6 ; D. 8|24 ; A. 3|26 ; C. 22 ; V. 5 ; 

 P. 15. In the figure 26 rays are marked in the soft dorsal. The 

 lateral line is moderately curved over the pectoral. The length of 

 the specimen was 8 \ inches, and the figure is of the natural size. 

 The following front view will give some notion of the wedge-shaped 

 form of the head. 



Capros australis (Nob.), Australian Boar-fish. 



In Polack's account of New Zealand, John Dories are enu- 

 merated among the fish which frequent the coasts of that 

 promising colony, and there is much probability of his having 

 correctly applied the name, since we find that Dories closely 

 resembling the common species, if not actually the same, 

 exist in the seas of Japan and the Cape of Good Hope, in 

 nearly similar latitudes. Among the drawings which Dr. 

 Lhotsky caused to be made of the fish of Port Arthur in 

 Van Diemen's Land, there is a well-executed figure of a fish 



