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On a new and remarkable Fish of the family Mugilidw 

 from the Interior of New Guinea. 



By W. Macleay, F.L.S. &c. 



Among a large variety of Fishes, both saltwater and fresh, 

 lately brought from New Guinea by Mr. Alex Goldie, is one so 

 abnormal in some respects that I may be excused if I make it the 

 subject of a special paper, leaving the rest of the collection for 

 my " Fourth contribution to a knowledge of the fishes of New 

 Guinea " which I hope to be able to lay before you in the course 

 of a few weeks. The fish in question is undoubtedly of the family 

 Mugilidce. and in fact might almost be included in the genus 

 Agonostoma, were it not for a structure of mouth unknown as I 

 believe among fishes. In most teleosteous fishes, at all events in 

 this family, the gill openings are large, and what may be termed 



