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Mange: — From the Queensland Coast it was first definitely reported by 

 Macleay, whose specimen came from the Endeavour River, N.Q. ; Kent extended 

 its range southward to Bowen, M.Q;., off which the " Endeavour" subsequently 

 trawled 18 young examples in 14 fathoms on fine sand and mud. To these, as 

 previously stated we can add Thursday Island, Raine Island, B.R., and the 

 Burnett River, M.Q., this being the most southerly locality of which we have 

 any note on our coast. Beyond our shores Stead has figured a specimen sent to 

 him from "the Evans River, a little to the north of the Clarence River," N.S.W., 

 thus adding many miles to its southerly range, and finally Kent claims rather 

 vaguely to have seen it in West Australian waters, and Giinther as vaguely 

 records it from the North Coast, In the Archipelago it was recorded nearly two 

 centuries ago by Valentyn from Amboina and later from the Moluccas and " les 

 cotes des Terres Australes" by Renard, and its abundance and wide distribution 

 there can not be better shown than by the following list of the islands from 

 which Bleeker received it — Waigiou, Ceram, Amboina, Batchian, Obi, Celebes, 

 Bali, Borneo, Java (whence Valenciennes had already recorded it), Banca, 

 Bintang, Rio, Mas, and Sumatra, while Cantor added Pinang and Giinther the 

 Malay Penisula. It ranges northward through the Philippines to Formosa and 

 China, and westward through the Indian Seas to the Persian Gulf (Boulenger) , 

 the Red Sea (Ruppell), and Madagascar (Bleeker). From the Pacific it has been 

 recorded from the Hawaiian and Society Groups and should, therefore, be 

 generally distributed. 



Dimensions : — On the Australian Coast Stead has recorded it as attaining 

 a length of 456 millim. ; our largest specimen, from Raine Island, measured 428, 

 but it is said to grow to 900 and even according to Day to 1,500 millim. 



Illustration : — The specimen, of which Miss Clark has given us so beautiful 

 a figure, measured 216 millim. and came from the Burnett River. 



ALECTIS CILIARIS (Bloch). 



Zeus ciliaris Bloch, Ausl. Fiseh., vi, 1788, p. 29, pi. xci; Bonnaterre. Encycl. Meth., Icbth., 



1788, p. 71, pi. lxxxix, fig. 372; Gmelin, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., ed. 13, i, 1789, p. 1223; 



Schneider, in Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 94; Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, pp. 



570, 572; Shaw, Gen. Zool., iv, 1804, p. 283. 

 Scomber flamentosus Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc London, iii, 1797, p. 36; Schneider, 



ibid., p. 34. 

 Gallus virescens part. Lacepede, ibid., pp. 583, 584. 



Zeus vomer Russell, Fish. Vizagapatam, i, 1803, p. 46. Not of Linnaeus. 

 Chewoola-P arali Russell, ibid., pi. Iviii. 



Zeus crinitus Mitchill, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xi, 1826, p. 144, pi. opp. p. 1. 

 Blepharis fasciatus Ruppell, Atlas Fisch. Roth. Meer., 1828, p. 129, pi. xxxiii, fig. 2. 

 Blepharis indicus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 154; Valenciennes, 



in Cuvier Regne Anim., ed. Illustr., 1836, Poiss. pi. Iviii, fig. 3; Schlegel, Faun. Japon., 



Pise, dec. 7, 1845, p. 113, pi. Ix, fig. 2; Richardson, Rep. Ichth. China and Japan, 1845, 



p. 271. 



