S24 DR. A. GUNTHER ON LATES CALCARIFER. [Dec. 6, 
4. On the Occurrence of Lates calcarifer in Australia. 
By Dr. A. GtntueEr, F.Z.S. 
Mr. Sclater has received several specimens of a Perch from Mr. 
E. P. Ramsay, C.M.Z.S., of Dobroyde, Sydney, N.S.W. They 
were obtained from salt water at the mouth of the Fitzroy River, 
Queensland. At the first glance, I believed them to be the Austra- 
lian Psammoperca waigiensis ; but on a closer inspection I found that 
they had the lower limb of the preeoperculum armed with four 
strong spines, and that they were of a species of Lates not distinguish- 
able from the Indian ZLates calearifer. ‘This species is known to 
mhabit fresh and brackish waters, and probably also enters the sea. 
The British Museum possesses a series of examples, with perfeetly 
reliable information as regards the localities where they were 
obtained :—one example from the coast of North-western India 
(Playfair), several from the Ganges (Hamilton-Buchanan &c.), 
one from Amoy (Swinhee), several from China (Reeves), one from 
North China (Jamrach). Bleeker records specimens in his collection 
from Java, Madura, Banka, Borneo, and Celebes. The second 
Australian species of Lates (apparently limited to this continent) is 
Lates colonorum. 
The pseudobranchie of Lates ealcarifer are an extremely narrow 
strip of very short laminze, and easily overlooked. 
5. Description of an Adult Skull of Eupleres goudoti. 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &e. 
(Plate LI.) 
Flacourt, in his book on Madagascar, describes an animal under 
the name of Falanouc, which Doyére thinks he has identified with 
a young animal from Madagascar, sent to the Jardin des Plantes by M. 
Goudot. He described it under the name of Eupleres goudotii; but 
Schlegel, in the Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. vol. i. p. 292, in his list of 
Madagascar mammalia, observes it is not at all proved that the Fa- 
lanouc of Flacourt (p. 154) is the Hupleres goudotii of naturalists. 
Eupleres goudotii is described by M. Doyeére, in the Ann. des Se. 
Naturelles, 1835, vol. iv. p. 281, tab. xviil., from a very young 
animal preserved in spirits, and its skull. He describes the fur as 
very dark brown, with a fulvous under-fur, and two black streaks 
across the shoulders. The same skull is figured in Blainville’s 
‘Ostéographie’ as Viverra goudotit, tab. vili., and also the bones of 
the feet and other parts of the same. 
I am not aware that the adult animal of this species has been 
observed. MM. Pollen and Van Dam do not appear to have observed 
it; at least it is not so stated in M. Schlegel’s list of their animals, 
nor is it figured in their work. 
The British Museum has lately received a large cat-like animal, 
