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Very much like the two precedents, but the body much highe 

 and more gibbous on the back than even in Guntheri. The first 

 ventral ray prolongated in a bifid filament. 



The upper part of the body is green, with the border of the 

 scales darker ; lower parts of the body yellow ; the lateral line 

 dark ; sides of the head purple ; upper part of the pectorals 

 pink, with their lower p®rtion yellow. The dorsal, caudal, and 

 anal are purple ; the ventrals pink, with the spine white. 



Sometimes common in the market, from ten to twelve inches 

 long. Prom the Murray. 



MTJBBAYIA BEAMOIDES. 



(Murray Bream.') 

 D. 11/12. A. f . C. 17. P. 16. L. 1. 52. L. tr. 9*/16fc. 



Height four times in total length ; head three and two-thirds 

 in same ; orbit three and eight-tenths in length of head. The 

 body is rather short, similar to Guntheri. Head very cavernous ; 

 prseoperculum straight on its back edge, and finely ciliated and 

 serrulated. On the posterior angle, which is rounded, the den- 

 ticulations become larger and blunt ; those on the lower margin 

 are directed forwards ; there are several spaces devoid of denticu- 

 lations between them. Tbe inner edge of the operculum pro- 

 duces towards its angle a sort of rounded flap. The operculum 

 is thinly serrated, and has two angles, the lower of which is a 

 sort of flap divided into five flat spines. The prseorbital is not 

 strongly denticulated ; the suprascapula is like a segment of a 

 little round saw. The lateral line extends on the root of the caudal. 

 The base of the spines is scaly ; the longest spine of the dorsal is 

 the fifth ; the others grow shorter as they go backwards ; the first 

 is very small, the second longer, the third twice as long as the 

 precedents, the fourth about one-third longer again, and not much 

 shorter than the following. The spines of the anal are rather 

 slender — the first much shorter than the others, the second being 

 the longest ; the spine of the ventrals is long, and rather slender ; 

 the first soft ray of the same fin is prolonged on a filament. 



The general colour is of a dirty yellow. Each scale has an 

 obscure border ; head brown, with the lower parts reddish ; fins 



