BY CHARLES W. DE VIS, E.A. 621 



enclosing a large dark oval spot contiguous to each of the first 

 three spines. Second dorsal with blotches of dark brown on each 

 ray and adjacent sides of webs. Anal hyaline brown at the base, 

 black near the periphery. 



Loc. Queensland. 



MUGIL NASUTUS. 



D. 4 1/7. A. 2/S. Lat. 2S. Tr. 11. 



Height 5f, head 4 3- in the length. Snout 1, orbit I, interorbit 

 ^ of the head. Adipose membrane circumferential, narrow. 

 Mouth toothless. Upper profile horizontal on the head and nape, 

 slightly arched on the back ; lower strongly and regularly convex. 

 Head and nape broad and flat. Muzzle rounded, sharp, much 

 produced, the mouth being half-way betw^een its tip and the eye. 

 lips thin. Rami of jaws forming an obtuse angle — depth of the 

 cleft of the mouth f of its breadth. Pectoral as long as the 

 entire head, axillary scale short, lancet-shaped. Spinous dorsal 

 rising over the tenth scale of the lateral line and nearer to the 

 caudal than to the hinder edge of the orbit. Soft dorsal rising 

 over the twentieth scale or middle of the anal. Soft dorsal and 

 caudal scaly. Caudal emarginate. Long. 10". 



Loc, Cardwell. 



Possibly the absence of the first anal spine may be an individual 

 peculiarity. The physiognomy of the fish is peculiar, reminding 

 one strongly of Eleotris aporos while its mouth is in position like 

 that of a shark. 



SrECIES OF EUCALTPTS EIRST KXOW^I^" IX EUROPE. 



By THE Eey. Dr. Woolls, D.D., E.L.S. 



When Willdenow published the second volume of his Species 

 JBJantarum in 1799, only twelve species of Eucalyptus were 

 known in Europe, and these were so inadequately described, that 



