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Gape of mouth very obliqiie, extending only to the middle of 

 snout. The narrow sword shaped upper jaw reaches to below the 

 middle of the eye. A narrow stripe of small but distinct teeth 

 in both jaws ; the vomer is toothed, but not the palatines. Scales 

 large, no distinct lateral line ; spines of 1st dorsal fin weak and 

 short ; the 2nd dorsal and anal alike ; the pectoral does not reach 

 quite to under the 1st dorsal spine. The ventrals are inserted 

 before the point of the pectorals, and extend nearly to the last 

 dorsal spine, but not nearly to the anus. Caudal fin forked. Colour 

 above dark, beneath silvery, a broad silvery blue band along the 

 middle of the body. Length, 14 Ctm. 

 Port Phillip. (Klunzinger.) 



1222. Atherinichthys maculatus. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, K S. Wales, Yol. VIII., p. 207. 

 Lillesmere Lagoon, Burdekin. 



Family. MUGILID^E. 

 1123. Mugil tade. Forsk. 



Mugil planiceps Cuv. and Val. Gunth. Cat. III., p. 428. 



D. 4/|. A. 3/9. L. lat. 33-35. L. tr. 11. Ccec. pylor. 5. 



The greatest depth of the body is nearly equal to the length of 

 the head, and one-fifth of the total ; the depth of the body below 

 the origin of the spinous dorsal is contained twice and a third in 

 the distance of the snout from the dorsal fin. The least depth of 

 the tail is a little more than one-half the length of the head. Lips 

 thin ; the maxillary is bent downwards behind the angle of the 

 mouth, its extremity not being covered by the prseorbital. The 

 space at the chin, between the mandibulary bones, is cuneiform. 

 Eye with a narrow adipose membrane, which does not extend 

 on to the pupil. There are twenty scales between the snout and 

 the spinous dorsal. The eight, the tenth, or eleventh, the twenty- 

 second or twenty-third scales of the lateral line correspond to the 

 extremity of the pectoral, and to the origin of the two dorsal fins. 

 The soft vertical fins scaly ; the origin of the dorsal is in the 

 vertical from the third soft anal ray. 



Cleveland Bay. (Klunzinger.) 



