OF NEW SOUTH WALKS. 349 



Pomadasys hasta, Bleek. Atl. Ichthyol. des Ind. Or. Nederl., p. 

 28 ; Perc. Tab. 47, fig. 3. 



Identical with P. Kalcaan, commersoni and clirysobalion of Cuv. 

 and Val. 



21. — DlAGRAMMA MULTIVITTATUM, N. SP., PI. VII, fig. 2. 



D. 12/20, A. 3/ 7j L. lat. about 65. 



Height of body 2| in the total length, length of head 3| 

 times in the same ; diameter of eye one-fourth of length of 

 head ; lips fleshy with six pores beneath ; maxillary bone 

 not reaching the vertical from the anterior margin of the 

 orbit ; preeoperculum densely denticulated behind ; caudal fin 

 slightly emarginate ; fins spotless, spinous dorsal yellowish at 

 the base, soft dorsal and anal darker and scaly, the 2nd 

 and 3rd anal spines strong and of equal length ; colour 

 bluish silvery, becoming yellowish beneath the head and 

 thorax. There are three or four irregular, longitudinal, pale, 

 dark-edged stripes on the side of the head, and eighteen or 

 twenty indistinct, subparallel yellowish stripes extending from 

 the head and thorax obliquely backwards and upwards to the 

 dorsal fin and back of the tail. 



Two specimens, about 11 inches long. 



The affinity of this fish is evidently to D. hoematochir, or poly- 

 tcenia, Bleeker, but it is very distinct from both. In colouring it 

 appears to approach D. chrysotoenia, Bleeker, but in other respects 

 it differs more from that species than from D. polytcenia. 



22. — SCOLOPSIS PERSONATUS. 



Cuv. and Val. Hist. Nat. des Poiss., Vol. V, p. 259 ; Gunth. 

 Cat. Fish,, Vol. I, p. 360 ; Bleek. Atl. Ichthyol. des Ind. Or. 

 Nederl. Spar., p. 9, Perc. Tab. 63, fig. 4. 



23. — Scolopsis longulus, Rich. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, 1842, p. 380 ; Gunth. Cat. Fish., 

 Vol. I, p. 363. 



Apparently common. The specimens vary from 8 to 3 inches 

 in length. 



