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about one-fourth the size of the tympanum. Fingers not 

 webbed. Skin perfectly smooth above. Light olive-coloured ; 

 a broad black band runs from the extremity of the snout through 

 the eye and tympanum, to the side of the abdomen, being infe?-- 

 rupted a short distance behind the tijmpayium. A blackish band 

 across the back of the wrist. Hind limbs marbled with blackish 

 along the fore and hinder surfaces. 



Cape York. 



Body If inch long, hind limb 3^ inches, foot 10 lines. 



23. Pelodryas cmruleus (White). 

 Port Essington, Moreton Bay, Nicol Bay, Sydney. 



FISHES. 



1. Serranus fuscoguttafus (Rlipp.). 



East Africa, Hope Island, Port Essington, Port Denison, 

 Cape York. 



2. Serranus undulato-striatus (Ptrs.). 

 New South Wales. 



3. Plectropoma tnaculatum (Bl.) . 

 Cape York. 



4. Priacanthiis Benmeliari (Schleg.). 

 Japan, Sydney. 



5. Ambassis agrammus, sp. n. 

 D. 7 I ^. A. |. L.lat. 26-27. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (with- 

 out caudal). Lateral line visible on the foremost scale only. 

 The second dorsal spine is longer than the third, much longer 

 than the second and third anal spines (which are equal in 

 length), not much shorter than the head, and two-sevenths of 

 the total length (without caudal). Uniform greenish olive, with 

 a narrow bluish- silvery band along the middle of the tail. 



Cape York. 



6. Ambassis Agassizii (Steindachner). 



D. 6 I |. A. |. L. lat. 25. 



The height of the body is contained twice and one-third in 

 the total length (without caudal). Lateral line none. The 

 second dorsal spine is scarcely longer than the third, much 

 longer than the anal spines, shorter than the head without snout, 

 and less than one-fourth of the total length (without caudal). 

 Body immaculate, with a narrow bluish-silvery lateral band. 



Clarence River (Krcfft, 65). 



