OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 396 



rays of the dorsal are short and about equal to the others. 



Very plentiful in the market. 



Clupea moluccensis. 



Clupea moluccensis ? BleeJcer, Nat Tyd. Ned. Ind., vol. IV', p. 

 609. 



The body is very compressed ; height contained twice and one- 

 third in the total length, without the caudal ; head three times 

 and a half in the same ; the lower jaw is longer than the upper 

 one, and when the mouth is shut the opening is upwards ; snout 

 very short ; maxillary very large and extending further than the 

 anterior margin of the eye ; this is large and only contained 

 twice and a half in the length of the head. 



Dorsal with seventeen rays ; caudal very forked ; anal low, 

 with eighteen rays, the ventrals are inserted a little behind the 

 pectoral ; mouth very extensible ; tongue smooth ; the serrature 

 of the belly extends higher than the pectorals ; of a beautiful 

 azurine blue on the back ; the rest very silvery ; head gilt ; fins 

 of a light yellow ; the dorsal with its extremity, and a faint 

 transverse band, black ; seen in the sun, there seems to be a 

 longitudinal white stripe on the body, between the blue and 

 silvery. 



Sometimes seen in the Sydney market, and one specimen from 

 the Brisbane River, sent to be by the Queensland Museum. 



MUR(ENES0X BAGIO. 



Muroenesox hagio, Kaup. Gat. Apod., p. 116, pi. XIV, fig. 73. 

 Ophisurus rostratus, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Uran., Zool.,p. 242, 



pi. 51. 

 Conger oxyrhynchns, Eydoux and Soul., Voy. " Bonito.^^ p. 203, 



pi 9, fig. 2. 

 Congrus tricuspidatus Richard, Voy. '* Sulphur,^^ p. 105, pi. 51. 



Body very elongate, scaleless ; snout very much produced ; 

 vomer with very strong, long, and compressed teeth, with more 

 or less conspicuous lobes at the base. Of a light lilac colour 

 wibh the belly white ; the dorsal yellow, bordered with black. 

 Sometimes called "sea eel," by the fishermen ; found all over the 

 Indian and China Seas. 



