OF AUSTRALIA. 
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The colour of the dried specimen is brown, with vestiges of 
darker spots ; the fins are light green, and the caudal has 
transverse dark dots. 
Western Port. 
PEGASUS. 
I have obtained a dried specimen belonging to : 
PEGASUS LANCIFER. 
Pegasus Lancifer, Kaup. Trosch. Arch. vol. i., p. 116 — 
Loph, p. 4, pi. 1 . fig. 2. 
Parapegasus Lancifer, Bum. Ich., vol. ii., p. 494. 
It corresponds well to the figure, but the ventrals have 
evidently three rays ; it is three inches long, and was found 
in Hobson's Bay. 
RATA ROSTRATA. 
I have described in the last year's Proceedings a sort very 
common here, under the name of Oxyrhynchus, thinking at the 
time that it was similar to the European sort ; but further 
researches lead me to believe that it is distinct. 
The differences consist in the absence, in the Australian 
species, of spines over the eyes, and in the greater length of 
the snout, which is twice and a half as long as the entire 
space which separates the eyes. 
It also differs from the New Zealand sort (nasuta), by the 
absence of spines over the eyes, and also by the teeth, which 
have no points. Mr. Hutton (New Zealand Fishes) says, 
that in that sort the belly is smooth ; whereas in the Austra- 
lian fish it is, on the contrary, covered with strong granula- 
tions. It attains very large dimensions, and often weighs over 
sixty pounds. The female is larger than the male ; the 
anterior point is more obtuse, and she is of a uniform colour, 
without the white spots. The teeth are very different in the 
two sexes, as is the case with many other sorts of this family. 
RAYA LEMPRIERI. 
Since last year I have seen many specimens of this sort, and 
I beliwe that it is the Raya Nasuta of Solander. The spines 
