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from the others. It agrees better with JPsenes, but the limb of 

 the prseoperculum is striated and crenulated. 



Dr. G-unther, in the second volume of his valuable catalogue, 

 has established a genus Neptonemus amongst Scombridce, to 

 which he gives the following characters : — " Body oblong, com- 

 pressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate size ; the cleft 

 of the mouth of moderate width ; the snout obtusely conical ; 

 prseoperculer margin obtusely crenulated ; the first dorsal con- 

 tinuous, with some feeble spines ; the second dorsal and the anal 

 are more developed, with a scaly sheath at the base ; no Unlets ; 

 anal spines indistinct : pectorals much longer than the ventrals ; 

 a series of minute teeth in the jaws ; palate toothless ; branch- 

 iostegals six." One single sort from New Zealand {Neptonemus 

 Brama) . 



In the second part of the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society for 1869," the same naturalist describes a second sort, 

 under the name of Dobiila, from Tasmania, and adds, — that on a 

 further examination he finds that this genus belongs to the 

 family of Carangidce, and that there are two very small spines in 

 front of, and at a short distance from the anal fin. 



Almost all these characters applying to my sort, I have 

 placed it in the genus Neptonemus ; but it cannot be the New 

 Zealand sort, which has one spine and twenty -nine rays at the 

 second dorsal, nor the Tasmanian one, which has — First dorsal 7. 

 Second dorsal 1/40. Anal 2 1/23. 



NEPTONEMTJS ? TEA VALE. 



{The Travale). 

 The body oblong, rather compressed, high, very curved over 

 the eyes ; the greatest depth is at the insertion of the 

 second dorsal, and is contained two and two-thirds in the 

 total length ; the length of the head is not quite four 

 times in the same ; the snout is short ; the eye large, placed 

 at half the height of the head, and contained three and two- 

 third times in its length ; the lower jaw is longer than the upper 

 one ; the cleft of the mouth extends to the line of the anterior 

 margin of the eye; the nostrils nearer to the end of the snout 

 than to the orbit ; upper part of the head naked ; cheeks and 

 operculum scaly ; teeth numerous and fine, all equal, and dis- 



