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I have already mentioned this species in my paper on the fishes 

 of Victoria (Proceed. Zool. Soc. of Vict. vol. II., p. 151) ; it 

 seems to be very rare in the southern parts of Australia, but is 

 common in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 



It may be characterized thus : — No developed adipose eyelid ; 

 anal fin with ten soft rays ; no pointed axillary scale ; tail 

 compressed and very high ; caudal very strongly emarginated ; 

 body compressed ; its greatest height being behind the half of 

 the body ; head pointed. 



Colour very silvery ; back dark, with a beautiful blue tinge ; 

 fins rather dark ; a bright golden spot on the opercle in front of 

 the insertion of the pectorals, and another behind the eye. 



Usual size about a foot long ; it frequents the bays, estuaries, 

 and lagoons of the coast. 



FlSTULAEIA SERRATA. 



Fisiularia Tabaccaria, White, N. 8. Wales, p. 296, pi. 2. 

 serrata, Guv. Regn. anim.. Vol. II., p. 267. 



Found all over the Indian sea ; pretty plentiful at Sydney, 

 particularly in May and June. 



It is of an olive green, lower part white ; the eye is green. 



Heliastes hipsilepis. 

 HeliastesJiipsilepiSjGunth. Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. 20, p. QQ. 



Height of body contained twice and one-third in total length, 

 without the caudal fin ; head three times and one-third in the 

 same ; preopercle striated, and almost (?) finely serrated on its 

 lower edge ; eye very large ; the diameter of the eye of the length 

 of the snout ; scales of the body large, twice as high as long, 

 numbering twenty-eight or twenty-nine ; dorsal formed of 

 thirteen spines, and fourteen rays ; caudal deeply forked ; anal 

 with two spines the first short, the other nearly four times as 

 long ; pectorals long. 



The colour of a dark olive green ; lighter and inclined to 

 yellow on the sides of the head and on the belly ; base of the 

 pectorals black. 



Size, six and a half inches long. 



