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nigra. Macula nigra ad angulum superiorem operculorum. Pinnae 

 dorsales colore dorsi absque nitore. Pinnse pectorales pallidiores. 

 Pinnae ventrales albidse. Pinna ani antice albida, postice lutescens. 

 Pinna caudalis lutescens. Pinnulae spurise nullse. Pectus sub pin- 

 nis ventralibus late canaliculatum. Pinna dorsalis anterior fossula 

 recondenda. Linea dorsalis completa paulo pone pinnam dorsalem 

 anteriorem parum descendens. Linea lateralis antice dorso propior, 

 sub initium pinnae dorsalis posterioris admodum descendens et dein 

 recta ad carinam caudae extensa. Cauda loricata anceps. Rictus 

 am plus albus. Habitat in oceano Australiam alluente, prope Novam 

 Zelandiam, Martii 30, 1770." (Solander.) 



The Scomber trachurus, varietas (fig. 223, Banks. Lib.), of 

 the Forsters, is also most probably another example of this 

 group : it ^Yas taken in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. Brous- 

 sonnet has added under the drawing a reference to Scomber 

 dimidiatvs of his MSS. ; and some one has also considered it, 

 though incorrectly, as synonymous with the Scomber micans 

 of Solander. There is a short notice of it in the ' Histoire 

 des Poissons' (ix. p. 20). 



The Caraxx georgiaxus (Cuv. and Val., ix. p. 85), pro- 

 cured by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard in King George's Sound, 

 is one of the species having a more elevated body, but still 

 with a straight profile. A specimen from the same locality is 

 described by Mr. Jenyns with more detail in the "Zoology" 

 of the 'Voyage of the Beagle' ; and Parkinson's figure, No. 89, 

 and Solander's description of Scomber micans, do not appear 

 to differ from it. 



" Corpus ovato-oblongum, compressum nitens. Caput mediocre, 

 antice nudum, postice squamosum. Rostrum parum descendens, 

 obtusiusculum. Maxilla superior paulo longior, in ore clauso. Max- 

 illa inferior subtus poris punctata. Os parvum. Dentes inmaxillis, 

 lingua, palato et fauce. Dentes maxillares minuti, conici, numerosi 

 serie irregulari dispositi : dentes linguae et palati acerosi, minuti, 

 pauci: dentes faucium conici plures. Lingua ovata, obtusa alba, 

 antice libera. Oculi parvi ; iris e fusco-argentea : pupilla nigra. Nares 

 in medio inter oculos et rostrum, vicinae, parvae, oblongae : anterior 

 paulo major. Brancbiarum opercula integra, squamosa. Membrana 

 branchiostega tecta, 7-radiata. Linea lateralis supra pinnas pecto- 

 rales late arcuata dorso propior, parum carinata, pone illarum ajjices 

 descendens et dein recta per medium piscem in Cauda loricata alte 

 et acute carinata. Praeter lineam lateralem linea dorso toto parallela, 

 spatio vix semunclali ab illo remota (ideoque nobis dorsalis), punctu- 

 lata ; alia linea obsoleta, impressiuscula, paulo supra pinnam analem 

 ducta. Regio ani in medio pisce, oblongo-lanceolata, nuda, | unc. 

 longa a pinna anali parum remota. Anus majusculus ; apertura va- 

 ginae geniturae par\'a. Cauda brevis, teres, e linea laterali loricata, 

 subanceps, postice dilatata in aream quadratam ad latera carinas lineae 

 lateralis. Pinnae dorsales duae, anterior spinosa, 8-radiata, intra 



