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SlLLAGO TERRJE-REGIN^. 



The fish I here describe is very different from punctata and 

 maculata by its uniform colour ; it cannot be united with ciliata 

 on account of its prseoperculum being absolutely entire. I 

 thought it might be Burrus of Richardson, A.nn. and Mag. of 

 Nat History, vol. IX., p. 128, but this is said to be spotted like 

 maculata, and that the head is one-third of the total length 

 without the caudal. This burrus is only known by a drawing, 

 and Dr. Grunther has very properly neglected it in his catalogue. 

 I am inclined to believe that it is simply maculata, as it appears 

 principally to differ from this by the absence of the longitudinal 

 streak which may have been forgotten by the draftsman, S. bassinus 

 is, as I have already said, probably a variety of punctata. Height 

 of body contained a little less than four times in total length 

 without the caudal fin ; head three times and one-third in the 

 same ; diameter of the eye four times and a half in the length 

 of the head, and twice m the snout ; the space between the eyes 

 is one-half the length of the snout; preeopercule entire without 

 spines or teeth of any sort ; operculum terminated by a strong 

 spine ; the lateral line extends over sixty-four scales ; first dorsal of 

 ten rays, the third being the longest ; second dorsal with one spine 

 and eighteen rays ; the caudal very slightly concave ; anal with 

 two spines and fifteen rays. The fish is silvery with the upper 

 parts greenish ; on the body some very feeble transverse dark 

 bands that disappear on the dried specimen. 



This fish is called Whiting at Brisbane, and is caught in 

 large numbers in Moreton Bay. Its flesh is, as usual, in this 

 genus, very savoury. The average size of the adult specimen is 

 about twelve inches. 



SCLENA AQUILA ? 



The Scicena aquila is one of the European fishes that have 

 been most particularly studied — a sort from the Cape of Good 

 Hope named hololepidota, by Lacepede and Cuvier, and Gapensis 

 by Smith, seems not to differ from it. When I published my 

 first paper on Australian fishes in the Proceedings of the 



