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value for isinglass, and forms a valuable article of export on the 

 Indian and Malacca coasts, the merely dried bladder being worth 

 equal to is. 6d. per lb. In one of our species — the Teraglin — the 

 air-bladder is of great size and excellent quality, and treated in 

 the same way, that is without any preparation or outlay except 

 that of drying in the sun, would probably add threepence to the 

 value of each fish caught." — R. R. C, p. 20. 



The Teraglin {Otolithus atelodus), another allied fish of 

 the same family, is in many respects very like the Jew-fish, 

 but does not grow to such a large size, and the flesh is of 

 a finer grain. Like the Jew-fish, it is one of our principal 

 food-fishes, and occurs all the year round, but is more 

 plentiful during the warmer months. Fine specimens of 

 this fish are exhibited in Case No. 3. 



POLYNEMID^. 



Although three species of this family have occasionally 

 been found on our coast, they cannot be enumerated 

 among our useful fish, being great rarities. Further north, 

 however, in the warmer waters of the Queensland coast, 

 one species of Polyneimis at least is common, being found 

 plentiful at the mouth of the Burdekin river by one of the 

 employes of the Australian Museum, Mr. A. Morton. 



SPHYRyENID/E. 



" There are three fishes belonging to this small family occasion- 

 ally found in Port Jackson and the other inlets of the coast. 

 They are Sp/iyrceiia novcE hollandice and obtusata and Neosphyroena 

 mult'iradiata, all of them named, from the elongate muzzle and 

 strong teeth, ' pike,' though in no way related to the well-known 

 European fish of that name. They are very good for the table, 

 but are so seldom brought to the market in any quantity that they 

 are but little known. They are only caught in the seine, and 



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