306 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AXJSTRALIAX FISHES, 



two central ones are tlie largest. The lateral line has two very- 

 strong sinuosities, one opposite to the commencement of the first 

 dorsal, the other to its end. The body is very silvery, with the 

 back of a light green, showing on the living specimen seven or 

 eight longitudinal lines of a rather darker tinge, the sides and 

 belly have a rosy hue, the side of the head is somewhat purple, 

 the fi.ns are of a purplish green and the eyes yellow. Attains a 

 length of 16 inches, and like the last is occasionally seen in the 

 Melbourne Fishmarket. 



6. Lates CTJRTrs, Oasteln. 



Eesearches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 5. 



Differs from L. colonorum in being shorter and higher in the 

 body, in having the maxillary bilobed anteriorly, and in having 

 1 1 rays in the soft dorsal. The third spine of the dorsal is the 

 longest, there are 53 scales on the lateral line, and the transverse 

 line consists of 10/17. Colour uniform, and length of specimen 

 14 inches. Found in the Eichmond Eiver. 



7. Lates Darwiniensis, Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 345. 

 Port Darwin. 



8. Lates Eamsayi, n. sp. 

 D. 9. 1/10. A. 3/7. L. lat. 54. 

 Compressed, the height of the body one-thii'd of the total length, 

 length of head about one-fourth ; diameter of eye one-fourth of 

 the length of the body, about equal to the length of the snout, 

 and rather more than the width of the interorbital space, which 

 is moderately flat and grooved. Cleft of mouth oblique, the 

 lower jaw longest ; the maxillary broad and truncate reaching to 

 below the middle of the orbit, teeth numerous, minute and villif orm 

 in both jaws, those on the vomer and palatine bones on elevated 

 ridges ; pr^operculum finely serrated on the posterior limb, with 



