OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 241 



Note. — Mr. Gulliver has lately sent me a Ohatoessus from the 

 Norman River on the Gulf of Carpentaria ; it is similar to the one 

 from the Western coast of Australia, and so C. erebi would be found 

 at Swan River, in Dampier's Archipelago, in the Norman and 

 Brisbane Rivers ; and G. Bichardsoni would only inhabit the 

 Murray River ; the first is easily distinguished by its more 

 elongate form, and by the last ray of its dorsal extending to the 

 end of the body. The Murray River species has a more convex 

 profile, and its last dorsal rays covers very little more than 

 half the distance to the base of the caudal. 



Elops saurus. 



Elops Saurus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 518. 

 „ machnata, Forsk. Ruppel. 

 „ purpurascens, Richards. 

 „ capensis, Smith, Castelnau, olim. 



I had often seen this fish at Singapore and Malacca, and also 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, and I was very much pleased when 

 at Brisbane a fisherman brought me a fine specimen twenty-five 

 inches long. 



The fish is of a fine silvery colour, with the back of a beautiful 

 blue ; the upper part of the head almost black ; the opercles 

 iridiated ; dorsal and caudal fins of an obscure yellow ; anal 

 and ventrals white with a yellowish tinge ; the pectorals are black 

 with the inner part white. 



It seems to be admitted that this Elops is found in almost all 

 the warm or even temperate seas of the world. It has been 

 observed on the coast of the United States, in the West Indies, 

 at Zanzibar, at the Mauritius, in India, in China, and in Australia. 



Brisbania staigeri. 

 PL III. 



In my Researches on the Fishes of Australia, published at 

 Melbourne in 1875 in the Official Records of the Philadelphia Cen- 

 tennial Exhibition, I mentioned that a drawing of a fish, caught 



