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Two dorsal fins. Oj)erciiliim spinif eroiis ; praeoperciiliim with 

 strong sjDines at the angle and at the lower limb ; preeorbital 

 strongl}' serrated. Scales moderate. 



Nile, mouth of large East Indian Eivers, and Australia. 



1. LaTES CALCARIFEIi, Bl. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 68.—Zafes nolili.^, Cuv. & Yal. 



D. 7-8. 1/12. A. 3/8-9. 



Angle of proBoperculum obtuse, the lower limb with four strong 

 spines ; coracoid with six to ten denticulations ; the third spine of 

 anal fin twice as long as the second. Back and sides brownish, 

 shining : belly white. 



A large fish, found on the coasts and at the mouths of rivers 

 in India, China, Java, &c., and probably all over the intertropical 

 coasts of Australia, as Dr. Gunther has seen it from the Fitzroy 

 River, and Count Castelnau mentions it among the Fishes of the 

 Norman Eiver. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. iii., p. 42. 



2. Lates colonorum, Gunth. 



Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1863. p., 114. Perch of Colonists. 



D. 8. 1/10. A. 3/8. L. lat. bb. L. transv. 8/21. 



Body slightly compressed ; the height a little more than one- 

 third of the length without caudal. Head one-third of the length 

 without caudal. Eyes large, yellow, distant from the point of 

 the snout about one diameter, and more than a diameter apart. 

 Teeth minute, villiform, the palatine bands narrow and separate 

 from the vomerine band. Maxillary broad, triangular, reaching 

 to below the middle of the eye ; mouth slightly oblique, prse- 

 operculum strongly toothed, six or seven of the teeth at and below 

 the angle being large and pointed forwards, operculum with a 

 very long acute spine at its extremity. Infraorbital finely 

 serrated and slightly sinuate, the suture of the sub and inter- 



