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2. Syxaptura nigea. 



D. 57. A. 47. 0. 14. L. lat. 77 on the body. 



Height with fins, two-thirds of total length. Mouth about 

 equally developed on both sides, with numerous short cutaneous 

 filaments, extending on the blind side over a large portion of the 

 head. The upper eye very slightly in advance of the lower, and 

 about two diameters of the orbit apart from it. The pectoral fin 

 on the right side a little less than one-third of the length of the 

 head, that on the left side a little smaller. Scales firm and hard 

 their apices glassy-looking and armed with seven or eight acute 

 points, on the right side ; those on the blind side of the same 

 form and size, but not so strongly armed, and of an uniform 

 yellowish- white. The colour on the right side is black, the glassy- 

 looking apex of the scales giving it a greyish hue, the left side is 

 entirely yellowish- white. The vertical fins are tij^ped with white. 



This is the best of our Flat Fish. It is generally called the 

 " Sole," (though that name is often given to other species of the 

 FleuronectidceJ and is abundant at the proper season in Botany 

 Bay at the mouth of Cook's Eiver. It is also found in Port 

 Jackson. The average size of an adult fish is about 10 inches in 

 length, by six in height. 



NOTES AXD EXHIBITS. 



J. Brazier, Esq., C.M.Z.S. etc., exhibited five proof sheets of 

 Brachiopoda, from the new species obtained by H. M. S. 

 '' Challenger." Also '' The Zoology of the '' Magenta "." 



Mr. Masters exhibited specimens of Puffinus gavius and Arses 

 telescoptlialmus ; both new to the Australian Fauna, and a Monkey 

 from Borneo, (Nasicus larvatusj sent to the Hon. W. Macleay by 

 Count de Lansberge, Grovernor General of Netherlands India. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited some palms and other plants brought 

 from Lord Howe's Island by Mr. Armstrong. 



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