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but one t'oiu-tli of that of the head. The Australian Museiun is fortunate in 

 possessing a second speciineu of this interesting and evidently scarce soiienid, of 

 which McCulloch writes as follows: — "A nice little specimen, registered as 

 having been collected by yourself in the Brisbane River in 1886, is Pseudo- 

 mijctcfus tnaccuUocJii. I had almost identified it with Corriiia comes de Vis.'' 

 This example was taken by hook at th" I'ocks below Thorn street, Kangaroo Point. 

 Many old Brisbane anglers consider that this is, to the best of their belief, the 

 species which was known to them many years ago as the "golden perch," and 

 which disajjpeared so mysteriously after the great flood of 1893. McCulloch 's 

 identification of my 1886 fish with P. maccullochi lends color to this suggestion. 

 Our illustration is drawn from the holotype of P. maccullochi. 



SCIiENA SOLDADO (Lacepele). 



(Plate XXIV.) ; 



Holoccntrus soldado Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, jip. 344, 390. 

 Telia Eatchelee Bussell, Fish. Vizag., ii, 1803, p. 13, pi, exvii. 

 Corvina'^ miles Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1830, p. 94; idd., ibid'., ix, 1833, 



p. 479; Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Gen., sxiii, 1850, Scisen., p. 17; Jeidon, Madraa Journ. Lit. 



& Sei., 18.51, IX 131; Giiiither, Brit. Miis. Catal. Fish., ii, 1800, p. 300; Macleay, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, 1884, p. 23. 

 Scicena argentea (Kuhl & van Hasselt) Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 95. 

 Corvina soldado Cantor, Catal. Malay. Pish., 1850, p. 70. 

 Corvitia wolffii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., ii, 1851, p. 60. 

 Corvina sampitensis Bleeker, ibid., iii., 1852, p. 421. 

 Corvina celebica Bleeker, ibid., vii, 1854, p. 244. 

 Corvina dorsalis Peters, Arch. f. Nat., 1855, i, p. 242. 

 Johnius miles Bleeker, ibid., xviii, 1859, p. 364. 

 Johnius celebicus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 18G0, Borneo, p, 12. 



Pseudosci<Fna miles Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amst., xiv, 1874, Sciien. p. 23; Atlas Ichth., viii, 



1876, pi. ccclxxxv, fig. 3. 

 Scicena miles Day, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 185, pi. xliii, fig. 5: Klunzinger. Sitz, Akad. Wien, 



Ixxx, 1880, i, p. 372. 

 Sciana mUlleri Steindachner, Denk. Akad. Wien, xli, 1879, i, p. 1; Klunzinger, ibid. 

 Corvina argentea Maeleay, ibid., viii, 1883, p. 204. 



SILVER .JEWFISH. 



Type localities: — Pondicherry (C miles). 



Java {S. argentea K. & v. H.). 

 Banjermassin, Borneo (C. wolffii). 

 Sampit, Borneo (C. sampitensis). 

 Macassar, Celebes {C. celebicus). 

 Quilimane (C. dorsalis). 

 South Au.stralia (C. miillcri). 

 Lower Burdekin (C. argentea Mel.). 



Body deep and strongly compressed, the dorsal contour much more arched 

 than the ventral, which is nearly linear from the isthmus to the anal fin, its width 



''Sciana miles in letterpress by lapsus ealami. 

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