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Colour. — The body is translucent in life, with a broad silvery 

 band extending from behind the head to the tail. The back 

 beai's some scattered blackish dots which extend on to the 

 dorsal and caudal fins ; lips and chin also dotted. Occiput 

 dark brown. A dark spot at the base of each anal ray. 



Described and figured from a specimen 58 mm. long. It is 

 one of six of about the same length, which appear to be very 

 similar, though some are slightly narrower than the type. 

 They are readily distinguished from H. sprat teUides by the 

 forward position of the anal fin, which commences beneath the 

 termination of the dorsal. 



Loc. — Sans Souci, Botany Bay, New South Wales. Taken in 

 a prawn-net by Mr. J. H. Wright. 



Genus PoTAMALOSA, Ogilhij. 

 POTAMALOSA NOViE-HOLLANDLE (Cuvier uiul Vuleiicieiiiies), Giluther. 



(Plate xxix ; fig 4.) 



? Meletta iiovte-hollandue, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., XX., 1847, p. 376. Id., Castelnau, Res. Fish. 

 Austr. (Vict. Offic. Rec. Philad. Exhib.), 1875, p. 46. 



Clupea novcp-hoUaiidin', Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., vii., 

 1868, p. 431. Id., Macieav, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 

 iv., 1879, p. 379, and vi., 1881, p. 259. Id. Ogilby, Cat. 

 Fish. N.S. Wales, 1886, p. 56. 



Cltrpea (Hyperlophiis) nonc-IiDJiaudirp, Ogilby, Rec. Austr. Mus., 

 ii., 1892, p. 26. 



Diplomysfiifi iwvtpholldinUii', Ogilby, Ed. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1893, 

 p."l84, pi. xlvii (bad). 



Potamalosa iioviv-hoIJandi(i\ Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 

 xxi., 1897, p. 505. Id., Waite, Mem. N.S.Wales Nat. 

 Club, 2, 1904, p. 13. Id., Stead, Ed. Fish. N.S.Wales, 

 1908, p. 26. Id., Cockerell, Mem, Qld. Mus., iii., 1915, 

 p. 37. 



Potamalosa nntiqua, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxii., 

 1897, p. 70. 



