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and has seventeen long rays and four shorter ones on each side ; 

 the pectorals have fourteen rays. 



The upper parts are of a brownish grey ; the sides and lower 

 parts are white ; these latter are covered with numerous very small, 

 irregularly placed, but rounded spots of an obscure brownish 

 colour; fins rather olive colour; the caudal yellow; the anal 

 and ventrals white ; eyes silvery. 



Very common on the Melbourne Market almost all the year 

 round ; it is esteemed for the table. Average length, from 8 to 

 14 inches. 



I have one specimen 9 inches long, of a white silvery colour, 

 the back having only a greyish tinge ; the spots very minute, 

 and in reduced number ; they were very little visible on the fresh 

 specimen ; the muzzle is a little shorter, and more regularly 

 convex ; the eye is a little larger than in the typical specimens. 



SILLAGO MACULATA. 



Sillago maculata, Quoy et Gaimard, JExpecl. Freycinet Zool., 



pi. 53, fig. 2. 

 Guv. Sf Vol., Poissons, v. iii., p. 411. 



The body is oval, much shorter than in Punctata. The first 

 dorsal has eleven spines, and the second one spine and eighteen 

 rays ; the caudal has seventeen long rays ; the anal two spines 

 and nineteen rays ; the pectorals have sixteen. 



The height is five times and a-half in the total length, and the 

 head less than three times in the same. 



The upper parts are of a light olive colour, marbled with rather 

 large brown spots ; the lower parts are white ; on each side of 

 the body is a rather broad longitudinal band ; the fins are 

 diaphanous, with the rays spotted with orange ; the exterior 

 portions of the dorsal and the caudal rather obscure ; the eye is 

 silvery. Length, 6 inches. 



Only seen once in September. 



POLYNEMIDiE. 



"Body compressed and oblong, coyered with 

 scales, feebly ciliated or without serrature. Lateral 

 line continuous, continued on the tail. Mouth at 



