BY THE HONORABLE JAMES NORTON. 177 



years I have watched for the male inflorescence, if it may be so 

 called, I have never succeeded in discovering it, but the only cone 

 which I have yet examined contains fertile seeds. 



This, however, may be due to some other pine of the same 

 class, for the pollen is sufficiently light to be capable of being 

 wafted bv wind to considerable distances. 



Description of some New Australian Fishes. 

 By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., &c. 



Saurida ferox, sp. nov. 

 D. 1/10. V. 9. A. 11. P. 14 to 15. 



A horny tubercle on either side at the base of the tail. Length 

 of head four times in the total without the caudal. The inter- 

 orbital space equals the distance from the centre of the eye to the 

 tip of the snout, and is nearly four times in the length of the 

 head. Adipose eyelid well developed, extending to the nostril. 

 Short diameter of the eye one and two-thirds in the snout, and one 

 and a-half of the interorbital space, eight times in the length of the 

 head, silvery with a narrow yellow margin anteriorly. The height 

 of the body six times in the total length without the caudal. The 

 dorsal fin commences opposite the thirteenth scale of the lateral 

 line : the pectoral reaches as far as the vent and to the eleventh 

 scale of the lateral line. The adipose fin is equal to half the 

 length of snout from centre of orbit. A pale rose band below the 

 lateral line followed by three or four of a yellowish tint : belly 

 silvery, above the lateral line brown Lateral line raised, keeled. 



Hab. Port Jackson. 



Batrachus punctatulus, sp. nov. 

 D. 12-16. A. 15. V. 1, 5. P. 21. 

 No branchiostegals. General color light sienna brown, spotted 

 with blackish brown, larger spots on the back, the whole of the 

 head above and below spotted. Pectoral fin broad and short, as 

 wide as long ; dorsal continuous, the rays about twice as long as 

 the spines, tips of the fourth and fifth ray reaching to the membrane 



