BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 5 



the body without, and 3^- to 3 J times, with the caudal fin ; the 

 height of the head is 1| to 1£ times, and its width 1;} to 2 times 

 in its length ; the line of the forehead is straight or slightly- 

 convex ; the snout and suborbital bone scaly ; the maxillary 

 reaches beyond the postei'ior margin of the orbit ; canine teeth in 

 both jaws, rather small-; jaws about equal in length ; praeoper- 

 culum angled, the posterior margin with numerous conspicuous 

 teeth, sometimes becoming spiniform at the angle; the sub and 

 interoperculum without conspicuous teeth ; operculum with three 

 spines, the middle one conspicuously the longest, and the upper 

 the shortest ; the lateral line slightly curved, the apex of the 

 curvature opposite the 5th or 6th dorsal spine. The tail is about 

 as high as it is long ; the spines of the dorsal fin are of moderate 

 strength, the first two shorter, the others about 2 or 2J times in 

 the height of the body, the membrane between the spines deeply 

 incised not lobate ; the soft dorsal is a little higher than the 

 spinous, the longest rays being from 2 to 2\ times in the height 

 of the body ; the pectoral fins are longer than the postocular part 

 of the head ; ventral fins rather rounded ; the 2nd and 3rd anal 

 spines nearly equal and neai'ly the length of two diameters of the 

 eye, the rays resembling the soft dorsal in height ; caudal fin 

 rounded. Colour of the body of a brownish or greenish shade, 

 the fins of a golden hue, eyes with the iris yellow or red with a 

 golden margin to the pupil. In young specimens there are 

 generally six broad transverse oblique brown fascife, broader than 

 the intermediate spaces on the body, and at all ages there are 

 dispersed over the body numerous blackish and yellowish spots, 

 becoming smaller and more closely distributed with age. 



Hab. Cleveland Bay. 



I give this habitat on the authority of Dr. Klunzinger. The 

 description is taken from Bleeker. Dr, Gunther, in his Catalogue, 

 (Vol. I., p. 128), suggests the identity of this species with S. 

 sahnonoides. I have seen many specimens of S. salmonoides from 

 New Guinea, all of very much more elongate form than one 

 would infer from the above description the present Fish must be. 



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