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This fish is known in Sydney under the specific name of 

 " Nanegai ; its usual length is about twelve inches, but some 

 specimens attain twice that length ; it appears towards the 

 middle of October, and lasts for about two months; it is highly 

 esteemed for the table. It is with doubt that I describe it as 

 affinis, as, on about two hundred specimens I have seen, nearly 

 all had the inferior lobe of the caudal much shorter than the 

 upper one ; two or three specimens only had the two lobes of 

 equal length. 



Apogonichthys adspersus. 



Height of body contained three times in total length of fish 

 with the caudal ; head twice and two-thirds in the same ; first 

 dorsal formed of six spines ; the first very short, the second 

 thickest of all, but not quite so long as the following : 2nd dorsal 

 with one spine and nine rays ; caudal truncated ; anal with two 

 spines (the 1st very short) and eight rays ; the lateral line 

 extends over thirty scales. 



The specimen preserved in liquor, seems to have been reddish, 

 and marked with irregular small brownish spots on most of the 

 scales ; belly white ; it is four and a-half inches long ; and is 

 from Rockhampton, where it bears the name of "Stinker." 



Therapon hillii. 



Teeth small, very numerous, villiform ; no canines ; a trans- 

 verse line of teeth on the palate ; opercule with two spines, praa- 

 opercule having its limb entirely and equally serrated ; the head 

 is rather pointed ; the back straight ; the height is contained 

 three times in the length without the caudal ; the head is three 

 times and two-thirds in the same, and the diameter of the eye a 

 little over four times and a-half in the length of the head ; five 

 series of scales on the cheeks ; opercule covered with scales 

 similar to the last, and much smaller than those of the body", 

 these numbering sixty-one on the lateral line without counting 

 five or six small ones on the base of the caudal ; this line passes 

 over the 12th, and nearly twice as many extend below on the 

 transverse line, but the inferior ones are very small ; all these 



