70 MEMOIBS OF THE QVEEXSLAXD AIUSEVM. 



Jaws with bauds of villiform teeth, the outer and inner rows more or less 

 enlarged. Dorsal fins separated by a notch, the first of nine or ten flexible spines, 

 the second with i 22 to 33 rays. Caudal fin varying' with age. Anal slioi't, with 

 ii 6 to 9 rays, the second spine varying from weak to very strong. Pectoral 

 pointed, with 16 to 19 rays. Gill-ralcers in small number, short and stont. 

 (oKiaiva, the Greek name for a Mediterranean species.) 



A large genus, composed of fishes verj' variable in size and appearance, 

 inhabiting nearly all warm seas, and of considerable economic importance. 



Key to the Aiistra'ian Species. 

 «•. Second anal spine short and weak. 

 6'. Snout more or less pointed. 



c'. Preorbitfll and interorbital region narrow, the former about 2o in the eye-diameter, 

 the latter about 5'25 in the length of the head . . . . . . 1. antarctka. 



C-. Preorbital and interorbital region wider, the former about 15 in the eye-diameter,, 

 the latter about 3'75 in the length of the head . . . . . . 2. anstralis. 



a^. Second anal spine strong. 



(/'. Snout swollen; second anil spine rather short, aliout one-third of the length of the 

 head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. itorw-hollandiai- 



d^. Snout not swollen; second anal spine long, aljout half the length of the head. 



e'. Body subovate, its depth more than one third of its length . . . . 4. soldeitlo. 



e-. Body elliptical, its depth less than one third of its length. 



/'. Soft rays of dor.sal 24 or 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. albida. 



p. Soft rays of dorsal 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0. leptolepis. 



SCIffiNA HOLOLEPIDOTA ANTARCTICA (istl.nau. 

 (Plate XXI.) 



Sciana uquila McCoy, Eep. Melb. Tiitcrn. E.\hib., 1866, p. 317; Ogilby. Kdil). Fish. N. S. Wales,. 



1893, p. 72, pi. xxli; Zietz, Trans. Koy. Soc. S. Aiistr., x.xvi, 1901, p. 266. 

 Sciana antarctka Castelnau, Proc. Zool. & Accl. Soc. Vic, i, 1872, p. 100; Maclcay, Proe. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. Wales, v, 1881, p. 520; Woods, Pish & Fisher. N. S. Wales, 1882, p. 53, pi. xvi; 



Stead, Fish. Austr., 1906, p. 113, fig. 42; id., Edib. Pish. N. S. Wales, 1908, p. 66, pi. 



xxxvii; Ogilby, Commer. Fish. & Fisher. Qucensl., 1916, p. 23; Roughley, Pish. Austr., 



1916, p. 112, pi. XXXV. 

 Seiwna aquilat Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii, iS7S, p. 232; id., ibid., ill, 1879, 



p. 381. 

 Corvina uxHUiris de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soi'. N. S. Wales, ix, 1884, p. 538. 

 Hciti'iia iiif/terlti Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Liini. Soc. N. .S. Wales, xi, 1SS(!, ]>. 941. 



JEWFISIL 

 Kintrfisli (Melbourne and Adebtide) ; Jewfish (Sychiey and Brisbane)"; Silver 

 Jew (young at Sydney) ; Mnlloway (Aborigijies of the Lawer Murray). 

 Type localities: — Bass Strait (S. (iiihirctica). 



Brisliaiie River {(!. a.rillaris). 

 liroketi Bay (.S*. neglrc.ta) . 

 Body elliptical and compressed, moderately robust, the dorsal contour 

 much more arched than the ventral, which is nearly linear from the isthmus to 

 the anal fin, its width rather more than half ils dei)th, which is 3-4 to 3-9 in its 



" Sometimes erroneously written ' ' dewfiah. ' ' 



