356 DESCEIPTrVE CATALOGUE OP AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Dorsal and anal fins in great part covered with, scales. Colour 

 ochreous golden-yellow, back slaty-grey, belly wbite, mouth 

 reddish, ventrals white and eye silvery. 



One specimen nineteen inches long, from the Murray. 



Grenus Murrayia, Casteln. 



A genus placed by Count Castelnau between Dules and Therapon 

 and characterized as having eleven dorsal spines, operculimi 

 denticulated in all its length, a line of small teeth on the palatine 

 bones, the caudal fin rounded, scales minutely serrated and the 

 head cavernous. 



Australian rivers. 



121. Muerayia Guntiieri, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Victoria, Vol. I., p. 61. 



D. 11/12. A. 3/8. P. 16. C. 16. L. lat. 50. L. transv. 10/18. 



Height three and one haK times in the length ; head three 

 times and two- thirds in the same ; eye four times and a-half in 

 the length of the head. Upper profile very convex, the back 

 being elevated and gibbous behind the head ; upper surface of 

 head naked ; praeorbital very finely denticulated ; prseoperculum 

 slightly emarginate behind, and finely serrated, the serrations 

 irregular and larger on the rounded angle and on the lower limb. 

 Oi)erculum with two broad flat serrated spines ; superscapula 

 and coracoid also serrated. The fifth dorsal spine is the longest ; 

 the soft dorsal is scaly ; the second anal spine longest ; the first 

 ray of the ventrals prolonged into a filament. The general colour 

 is purple, becoming redder towards the belly, the scales bordered 

 with a dark tinge. The fins are purplish, the ventrals pink with 

 the external third black : pectoral yellow. Eye bronze. 



From the Murray liiver, average length fourteen inches. 



