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dorsal fins of the same colour and hyaline, with the rays marbled 

 with yellow and brown ; caudal yellow, with four or five transverse 

 crimson bands ; anal pink ; ventrals yellowish ; pectorals yellow, 

 with several narrow crimson lines of spots ; eye yellow. 



Seen only once ; taken in the Straits of Bass, and dedicated to 

 the celebrated discoverer of that region. 



SILLAGO. 



Gfenus formed by Cuvier in the "Eegne Animal," on a fish 

 that Bloch had placed with Scicena and Bussel with Sparus. 

 Borskal had made an Atherina of a sort he had found in the Bed 

 Sea. Cuvier placed this genus with his JPerciclce, on account 

 of the denticulations of its prasopercule, and of the point that 

 terminates its opercle, as also on account of the presence of 

 teeth on the vomer ; but Dr. Grunther has included it in the 

 rather hetrogeneous family he calls Trachinidoe. It has certainly 

 very little natural affinities with the group in which Cuvier had 

 included it. 



Most of the sorts inhabit the Indian Sea ; others are said 

 by Cuvier and Valenciennes to be found in Australia ; but I 

 have only observed two of them. Bassensis, which was found at 

 Western Bort by d'Urville's Expedition, has not yet come under 

 my notice, and Giliata was originally found at Cape York, but 

 Dr. Grunther also records it from Tasmania and Sydney. 



I cannot agree with this last anthor in considering Bassensis as 

 a synonyme of Metadata; and as I have seen many thousand 

 specimens of Sillago from "Western Bort, which all belonged to 

 Punctata, I should be inclined to think it may be a variety of 

 that sort, perhaps rather similar to the white one I describe 

 below. 



SILLAGO PUNCTATA. 



Sillago punctata, Cuv. Sf Vol., v. iii., p. 413. 



{The Whiting.) 

 Form very elongate ; height of body eight times in total 

 length ; head five times in the same ; orbit four and a-half times 

 in the length of head. The dorsal has twelve spines at its first 

 fin, and one with twenty-six rays at its second ; the anal has one 

 spine and twenty-two rays ; the caudal is strongly bifurcated, 



