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SUS Savrvs avstratis. 
Saurida australis, Casteln., Proc. Linn, Soe. N. S. Wales iii, p. 393. 
Hab.—Port Jackson. Length, 14 inches. 
SAURUS TRUCULENTUS. 
Saurida truculenta, Macleay, Aust. Cat. ii, p. 155. 
Hab.—Port Jackson. Length, 20 inches. 
SAURUS FEROX. 
Saurida ferox, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales viii, p. 177. 
Hab.—Port Jackson. 
é Count Castelnau includes Saurus undosquamis, Rich., in his list of Port Jackson fishes (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales 
iii,, p. 355), but without giving any proof of its occurrence, and as a mere catalogue name I unhesitatingly omit it from the 
New South Wales Fauna. 
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AULOPUS “PURPURISSATUS. 
Rich., Ic. Pise., p. 6, pl. 2, f. 3 (very bad) ; Giinth., Cat. v, p. 403; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict. dec. vi, 
pls. 54, 55; Macleay, Aust. Cat. ii, p. 157 ; Tenison- Woods, Fisheries of N. S. Wales, p. 82, 
pl. 35. 
Aulopus milesii, Cuy. & Val. xxii, p. 519, pl. 650. 
Hab.—Coasts of Victoria and New South Wales. Sergeant Baker at Sydney. Attains to the 
length of 2 feet. One of the best food fishes of the colony. One of the characters of this genus, as given 
in the British Museum Catalogue, is “ Pyloric appendages few in number”; this will have to be omitted, 
as our southern species have these organs in very large numbers, up to 130 in a specimen examined lately. 
CHLOROPHTHALMUS NIGRIPINNIS. 
Giinth., Ann. Nat. Hist. 1878, (5) 11, p. 182. 
Hab.—Twotold Bay, 120 fathoms. 
PLAGYODUS FEROX. 
Alepisaurus ferox, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. i, pl. 19, and p. 395, pl. 59; Cuv. & Val. xx, p. 529; Johnson, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. 1862, (3) x, p. 817. 
? -_——— Rich., Voy. Erebus and Terror Fishes, p..34, pl. 22, ff. 1-4. 
Alepidosaurus ferox, Giinth., Cat. vy, p. 421; Macleay, Aust. Cat. ii, p. 162. 
Plagyodus ferox, Giinth., Ann. Nat. Hist. 1867, (3) xix, p. 185, and Study of Fishes, p. 586, f. 270. 
Hab.—Atlantic Ocean ; Tasmania (Richardson) ; Port Jackson (Krefft). Attains a length of 5 
feet. 
CYPRINID&. 
CYPRININA. 
CaRassIus VULGARIS. 
Cyprinus carassius, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, p. 526; Cuy. & Val. xvi, p. 82, pl. 459. 
Carassius vulgaris, Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Russ. Mer. iii, p. 479; Giinth., Cat. vii, p. 29, and Study of 
eH p. 591; Houghton, Brit. Fresh-water Fishes, p. 19; Day, Brit. Fishes ii, p. 164, 
Cyprinus siete, Linn. Gmel., p. 1417. 
Hab.—BEurope and Siberia; introduced to many fresh-water lagunes and ponds of New South 
Wales; Botany swamps. Length up to 10 inches. Those which I have seen from this neighbourhood 
belong to var. gibelio ; one received lately from the Nepean above Penrith is true 0. vulgaris. 
