OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 341 



Aiherina pectoralis, Cuv. and Val. 10, p. 447. 

 Found abundantly at Hall Sound. It may prove to be a new 

 species. 



Family Mugilid.e. 

 100. mugil axillaris. 



1 Mugil axillaris, Cuv. and Val. 11, p. 131. 



Mugil axillaris, Bleek. Natursk. Tijdsehr. Nederl. Ind. 4, 

 1853, p. 26Q, and Act. Soc. Indo-Nederl. 8, Sumatra. 9, p. 3. 



Mugil parsia, Bleek. Natursk. Tijdsehr. Nederl. Ind, 3, 

 1852, p. 166. 



This species was frequently taken in the seine at Yule Island, 

 Hall Sound. 



101. — Mugil delicatus. 



Plate XV., Jig. 1. 

 D 4| Af L. lat. 37. 



Height of the body at its deepest part behind the first dorsal 

 fin, four and a half times in the length. The length of the head is 

 five and a half in the same. Head broad, flat above, the width of 

 the interorbital space being more than half the length of the head. 

 Snout short and obtuse. The free space at the chin between the 

 mandibles is narrowly lanceolate. Eye without an adipose mem- 

 brane. Tbere are twenty-one series of scales between the snout 

 and the spinous dorsal. The pectorals extend beyond the origin 

 of the dorsal, but scarcely to the extremity of the ventrals. The 

 soft dorsal and anal are scaly and falcate, the latter slightly the 

 longest. The caudal fin is strongly forked, with the upper lobe 

 the longest, and is slightly tipped with black. The general 

 colouration is bright silvery, slightly darker on the back, and 

 with a black spot and elongate scale on the upper part of the 

 axil. 



This species was very abundant about Cape York. 



Of the many species of Mugil with which Australia abounds, all 

 of high reputation as edible fishes, this is decidedly the best. 



