Zoology.-] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. [Fishes. 



Continental museums. The only other species of the genus, the 

 T. elongata (Giinth.), is easily distinguished by its more elongate 

 slender form, smooth spines, and other characters. 



The specimen in our Museum was caught in Hobson's Bay, 

 23rd May, 1884. Not figured of natural colors before. 



Explanation of Figures. 



Tlate 114. — Fig. 1, side view, natural size. Fig. la, front view of head, to show granula- 

 tion and smooth spaces on top of head, natural size. Fig. 16, interior of mouth, showing 

 tongue, and hands of villiform teeth on jaws, palatine bones, and vomer, magnified two 

 diameters. Fig. 1c, scales of abdominal keel, enlarged. Fig. Id, anterior spines and branched 

 rays of dorsal, to show their roughness, magnified two diameters. Fig. le, scale from lateral 

 line, magnified three diameters. Fig. 1/, ditto, profile. 



Frederick McCoy. 



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