€6 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Upper surface of head and bodj' deep ultramarine-blue, the 

 sides and lower surfaces silvery more or less tinged with violet; 

 snout and preorbitals mostly silvery : dorsal fin with a few dark 

 dots, especially on the anterior rays : irides golden, clouded above 

 with blue. 



Distribution . — Coast of New South Wales. 



Length to 70 millimeters. 



Type in the Australian Museum, Sydney ; register number I. 

 3668. 



I am unable to give any information with respect to this* 

 species beyond the fact that it visits our shores annually, some- 

 times in enormous numbers, during the late summer and the 

 autumn months. Not more than half a dozen examples have, 

 however, come under my notice, and neither of the two dissected 

 showed any symptoms of breeding. Mr. Edward Skinner, of 

 Manly, tells me, however, that it is well known to the fishermen, 

 by whom it is called " Tailor Maray," on account of the number 

 of Tailors (Pomato7nus saltatrix) which invariably accompany and 

 feed upon them. 



KOWALA CASTELNAUI, sp.nOV. 



D. 17-19. A. 19-21. Sc. 44-45/12. 



Body ovate, the ventral profile much more convex than that of 

 the dorsal; head rather short and deep, its length 34 to 44, the 

 depth of the body 2f to 34 in the total length; width of the 

 body 2^ to 2^-^ in its depth; depth of the head 1 to 1^, width of 

 the head If to 2, of the interorljital region 'i\ to 3|, diameter of 

 the eye 24 to 3 in the length of the head. Eye large, with the 

 adipose lid well developed; interorbital region slightly convex; 

 snout short and broad, one-fourth to one-third of a diameter 

 shorter than the eye. Premaxillaries forming together a con- 

 spicuous emargination anterioi'ly; lower border of the maxillary 

 rounded and finely denticulated, the upper border notched towards 

 the tip; the distal extremity is rounded and extends to or not 

 quite to the vertical from the anterior margin of the pupil; its 



