540 DESCBIPTIVE CATALOGTJE OP AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



367. Seriola qigas, Gunth. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 446. 



D. 8. 1/24. A. 2. 1/16. 



Scales small ; lieight of body four times and four-fifths in the 

 total length, and equal to the length of the head ; the snout is 

 of moderate extent, twice the diameter of the eye and suhconical. 

 The maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior margin 

 of the orbit ; the ventrals are longer than the pectoral fins, but 

 do not reach the vent. The teeth form broad villiform bands ; 

 the band on the vomer is elongate and quadrangular, that on the 

 palatines broad and elliptical. The soft dorsal and anal fins are 

 elevated anteriorly, their height being more than half that of the 

 body. Coloration uniform, the sides sometimes dotted with brown. 



Houtman's Abrolhos, West Australia. 



368. Seriola graxdis, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 115. 



*' Yelloio Tail " of the Melbourne Fishermen. 



D. 6. 1/35. A. - 1/20. 



Of long oval form, height of body four times in the total length, 

 the length of the head about four times and one-third ; and the 

 orbit seven times and one-third in the length of the head. Eye 

 oval and oblique ; lateral line wavy and marked on about 143 

 scales, the transverse line contains nearly 200 ; a keel on the 

 posterior part of the lateral line near the tail. Scales on the 

 posterior parts of the body larger ; dorsal spines very low ; second 

 dorsal and anal fins have their anterior rays much longer than 

 the others, giving a falciform appearance. Coloration dark blue 

 above, silvery grey below ; a yeUow longitudinal band on each 

 side ; fins yellowish-grey ; caudal yellow, darker in the centre ; 

 pectorals black with jellow edge; mouth flesh colour; eye 

 yellow. 



Melbourne j Port Jackson (Castelnau). 



