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kill, and fights to the last ; its motions are very rapid, and it 

 inflicts dangerous wounds with its strong dorsal and pectoral 

 spines. 



When wounded it loses a large quantity of blood of a dark red 

 colour. 



Not common in Port Jackson ; taken with the hook ; it is not 

 usually used for food. 



Cnidoglanis lepturus. ? 

 Cnidoglanis lepturus? Gunth. Cat Vol. F.,^. 28. 

 " Dog-fish " at Sydney. 



Height of the body, six times and a half in the total length 

 without the caudal fin ; head rather depressed, its breadth being 

 only one-fifth less than its length, it is five times in the total 

 length without the caudal ; the nasal and maxillary barbels 

 do not extend sensibly further than the eyes ; eye small ; the 

 first dorsal high, the second only one-third of its height ; vomer- 

 ine teeth, molar-like, in a double triangular band, those of the 

 maxillary short, conical, in two patches of two, those of the lower 

 jaw molar-like, with an external line of conical ones ; lower lip 

 pendant, broad, covered with tubercles, and fringed ; a few 

 granulations on the sides of the head, before and below the eye. 

 Of a dark slatey colour, with the lower parts of a dirty- white ; 

 about fifteen inches long. 



Saurida Australis. 



Height of body contained eight and a half times in the total 

 length, without the caudal ; head four times and two-thirds in 

 the same. Upper jaw longer than the lower ; eye contained six 

 times in the length of the head, and rather longer than the snout ; 

 the pectoral extends to the end of the ninth scale of the lateral 

 line, this forms a slight keel on the posterior half of the fish ; the 

 dorsal has eleven rays, it is a little higher than long ; the anal 

 has eleven rays ; the number of scales on the lateral line is fifty- 

 eight ; the caudal is emarginate. 



The general colour is of an olive green ; the sides of the head 

 rather gilt ; a longitudinal narrow and faint white streak extends 

 on the fresh specimens below the lateral line, and another lower 



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