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length of the snout, and is one-fourth of the length of the head. 

 The upper jaw overlapping the lowei*. The band of maxillary 

 teeth with an outer row of stronger ones. The second anal spine 

 very strong and as long as the first ray ; caudal pointed. Above 

 greyish green, sides and belly silvery ; dorsals minutely dotted 

 with brown, and with a black upper margin, in front of each dorsal 

 ray a small brownish spot ; ventrals whitish ; the other fins with 

 a blackish margin. 



Queensland. (Klunzinger.) 



Sdcena Mulleri Steind, is probably one of the ScirenicUe already 

 mentioned, but I cannot find any description of it. 



Family. CARANGID^. 



1180. Caranx ignobilis. Forsk. 



Caranx sansun. Rupp. Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 4-47. 



D. 8/ 19 V A. 2 W ] 17 . L. lat. 30. 



The teeth of the upper jaw form a villiform band, with an 

 outer series of stronger ones ; those of the lower one in a single 

 series. The height of the body is 3 to 3 \ in the total length. 

 Breast scaly ; the lateral line is bent anteriorly, the width of the 

 arch being equal or nearly equal, to the length of the straight 

 portion ; the latter begins in the vertical from the seventh dorsal 

 ray. The plates are very well developed and distinct from the 

 beginning of the straight portion. The lower jaw is longer than 

 the upper, and the maxillary reaches bejond the vertical from the 

 centre of the eye. Opercular spot none. 



Port Darwin and Cleveland Bay. (Klunzinger.) 



1181. Caranx compressus. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. VIII, p. 204. 

 Lower Burdekin, salt water. 



1182. Chorinemus Sancti-Petri. Cuv. and Val. 

 Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 473. 

 D. 7/ 20 l 21 . A. 2/ 18 V Vert. 10/16. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the 

 head, and one-fifth of the total. The maxillary is triangular and 



