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A third fish obtained in Cambridge Gulf, that I have reason 

 to believe is new to science, is a species of Amblyopus. This 

 genus includes several small fishes allied to the Gobies, but 

 remarkable for the circumstance that the eyes are of such minute 

 size and low organisation as to be practically functionless. In 

 the example now under notice, it was not possible to detect the 

 presence of these organs in the living fish, and it is only since it 

 has become bleached in the preserving fluid that the eyes have 

 been rendered visible, with the aid of a pocket-lens, as exceedingly 

 minute specks. The colour of the living fish was a most delicate 

 rose pink, with a longitudinal carmine streak, indicating the 

 contour of the lateral line. Secondary streaks branched from the 

 primary one on either side, and delineated the boundaries of the 

 muscle-layers or myotomes. With reference to its characteristic 

 colouring, I propose — in association with the accompanying 

 diagnosis and illustration — to distinguish this fish by the title of 

 Amblyopus rubn-lineatu*. The nearest ally to this new species 

 that lias been hitherto recorded, would appear to be the 

 Amblyopus roseus, described by Cuvier and Valenciennes, as 

 occurring in sufficient qualities in the Bombay canal to form 

 an article of food. That species, however, grows tc the more 

 considerable length of fifteen or eighteen inches, and differs in 

 various structural details, including that of the fin formuhe and 

 the comparative length of the head. The specimen here described 

 was taken with the dredge at Cambridge Gulf, from a depth of 

 about five fathoms A second example was likewise brought to 

 the surface by the same method at Port Darwin, but unfortunately 

 escaped into the water. The only other representative of the 

 genus Amblyopus, hitherto recorded from Australian waters, is a 

 species that was obtained from the Brisbane River, and described 

 by Mr. De Vis in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales for the year 1884, under the title of Amblyopus 

 ntger. The colour of that fish, as it name implies, is an intense 

 black. 



Jn addition to the species of fish included in the subjoined 

 list, I received information at Wyndham, Cambridge Gulf, of a 



