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scales are ciliated on their edge ; dorsal having a very long 

 spinous portion composed of thirteen rays and a much shorter 

 soft one having eleven rays ; the dorsal fin is received in a 

 snlcate of the back ; caudal large, forked, scaley at its base 

 and on the membranes between the rays on two-thirds of their 

 length ; it has seventeen long rays ; anal formed of three large 

 spines, the first of which is the shortest, and the two others 

 about equal in length, but the second much thicker than the 

 others ; it has ten rays ; the ventrals are very large, being more 

 than two-thirds of the length of the head ; the pectorals smaller, 

 of sixteen rays. 



The specimen preserved in spirits is uniformly of a dark 

 yellowish colour ; a rather large rounded black spot is seen on 

 the opercule near its upper spine, and seven or eight similar 

 ones are dispersed on the back and sides of the body ; they are 

 very distant one from the other ; the specimen is twelve inches 

 long, and comes from Taroom on the upper Dawson River ; it is 

 entirely a fresh water fish. I have dedicated it to Mr. Hill, the 

 able Director of the Brisbane Botanical Gardens. 



THERAPON TERRjE-REGIKE. 



The height of the body is twice and a half in the total length 

 without the caudal, and is equal to the length of the head ; the 

 snout is shorter than the diameter of the eye ; praaoperculum 

 rounded, and having a line of strong acute spines, becoming 

 larger on the rounded part, but disappearing on the lower edge ; 

 operculum with two spines, the lower one very acute ; dorsal 

 with twelve spines, of which the two first are much shorter than 

 the third, and the fourth is the longest ; soft dorsal of nine rays ; 

 caudal bifurcated ; anal with three spines of which the middle 

 one is much larger than the others ; it has eight rays at its soft 

 part ; cheeks, with five series of scales, the lateral line extends 

 over forty-five of them. 



The specimen is in liquor, and seems to have been entirely 

 silvery ; there is the appearance of four narrow transverse bands 

 which do not extend to the belly ; the fins have probably been 



