BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S. 379 



Fishes. Dr. Gunther describes the species thus : — B. 8. D. 16. 

 A. 16. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 11. Coec. pyl. 14. Yert. 47. 



"The length of the head is contained four times and one-third 

 in the total (without caudal), the height of the body four times. 

 Scales regularly arranged, firm, adherent, smooth. Lower jaw 

 rather prominent, the maxillary narrow, extending a little 

 beyond the front margin of the orbit. A small patch of distinct 

 teeth anteriorly on the palatine bones ; none on the pterygoid 

 bones. A series of teeth along the median ridge of the tongue. 

 Opercles, smooth ; sub -operculum, narrow, tapering behind ; gill 

 rakers fine and closely set, half as long as the eye. Eye as long as 

 the snout, which is of moderate extent, two-sevenths the length 

 of the head. Ventral fin inserted below the anterior half of the 

 dorsal fin, the origin of which is nearer to the end of the snout, 

 than to the root of the caudal fin. There are fifteen abdominal 

 scutes behind the base of the ventral fin, their spines much 

 projecting. Silvery, dorsal and caudal fins brownish." 



This is a beautiful little fish, about five inches in length, and is 

 well known as the "herring" in all the tributaries of the 

 Hawkesbury, but I have not heard of it in any other of our 

 East Coast rivers, and it is certainly never found in the Western 

 rivers. Angling for this Fish is a favourite sport in some of the 

 upper waters of the Nepean. It is of no great value as a food 

 Fish. 



12. Cltjpea vittata, Castelnau. 



Meletta Nova Hollandice, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. and Acclim. Soc, 

 Victoria; Vol. 1. p. 189. 



Count Castelnau described this species under the belief that it 

 was the true C. Nova Hollandice, and on discovering his mistake 

 suggested the specific name vittata. He describes it thus : — 

 " Height four and a half times in the total length ; head five and 

 a half in the same ; eye as long as the snout, and contained three 

 and a half times in the head ; the lower jaw longer than the 



