BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 79 



the tips of the lobes acute, its length 34 in the total length; 

 caudal peduncle deep and strongly compressed, its least depth 2i 

 in the depth of the body, and li in its length. 



Scales mostly cycloid, those on the cheeks, preorbitals, and 

 lower sui'face feebly ciliated; snout naked; five series of scales 

 below the eye, of which one is on the interopercle; axillary scale 

 of the pectoral small; exobasal scale of the ventral smaller than 

 those at the base of the spinous dorsal, of which there are two on 

 each side, the posterior extending almost as far as the membrane 

 of the last sj)ine; second dorsal with a low, anal with a well 

 developed basal sheath, and with a few small scales between the 

 rays in both. 



Back pale olive-brown, the sides silvery, the abdominal region 

 with a golden tinge ; preorbital and border of the preopercle 

 golden, the cheeks and rest of the opercles silvery: a deep black 

 spot in the axil of the pectoral, extending downwards along the 

 inner side of the base; anterior ray and extremity of the second 

 dorsal fin dusky; posterior border of the caudal fin blackish; 

 anal, ventral, and pectoral tins yellow : irides golden. 



The single specimen from which the description is drawn up was 

 taken by net in the author's presence in the estuary of the 

 Oeorge's River during the month of December, 1895, and 

 measures 190 millimeters; it is in my possession. This large- 

 scaled species was known to the fishermen who caught it, but 

 was said to be rare, and as I have paid numerous visits to the 

 same estuary since that date and examined scores of gray mullets 

 from there without meeting with another example I can give that 

 statement at least a provisional corroboration. 



Note. — The examination of numerous small mullets while 

 engaged on this quest has, however, been productive of unexj)ected 

 benefit in another direction, since it enables me to determine that 

 the fish figured by Kner (Voy. Novara, Fisch. pi. ix. f. 6) as 

 Mugil crenidens is an immature Liza peronii, the tooth figured 

 on the same plate belonging to Myxus elongatus. In arriving at 

 this conclusion I have had the privilege of examining in a fresh 

 state a very large series of L. peronii from two inches in length 



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