BY W. MAOLEAY, F.L.S. 237 



D. 9. A. 12. P. 13. C. 16. 



Body oval ; head attenuated and rather pointed. The height 

 of the body is four times and two-thirds in the total length, the 

 length of the head five times and eight-tenths ; diameter of eye 

 four times and one-third in the length of the head. Lower jaw 

 a little longer than the upper ; the cleft of the mouth small ; the 

 maxillary just reaching to below the anterior margin of the eye. 

 The fins are rather large, the dorsal and anal opposite one 

 another ; the caudal is emarginate ; the length of the pectoral is 

 equal to the distance from the posterior margin to the end of the 

 operculum ; the ventrals are midway between the pectorals and 

 the anal. The teeth are small on the upper jaw, but much larger, 

 straight, pointed, and rather distant from one another, on the 

 lower jaw ; those of the tongue are large, straight, and pointed. 

 The colour of the body is a fine green ; the lower portions of the 

 head and body are, the first grey, the other orange-yellow ; the 

 whole covered with very minute blue points. The fins are grey, 

 with the ra\s white ; the ventrals are white ; eye golden. 



Marsh near St. Kilda. Length five and a-half inches. 



857. Galaxias orxatus, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc , Victoria, Vol. II., p. 153. 



D. 10. A. 11. P. 12. V. 7. 



Height of body one-seventh of the total length, and equal to 

 the length of the head. Lower jaw rather longer than the upper ; 

 diameter of eye one-fourth of the length of the head, and less 

 than the extent of the snout. The dorsal is situated at double 

 the distance from the snout that it is from the base of the caudal ; 

 caudal fin strongly emarginate ; anal placed a little behind the 

 dorsal ; the ventrals equidistant from the base of the pectorals 

 and anal ; the pectorals are of the length of the distance between 

 • the posterior edge of the eye and the extremity of operculum. 

 Colour above light green, beneath golden yellow ; on the back 



