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STIGMATOPIIORA NIGRA. 
The very numerous specimens I have seen show some 
variations in the length of the snout. In one, a large specimen 
four inches and three-quarters long, the snout is of the normal 
length, but it has on each of the body rings numerous round 
black spots, very small on the back, but larger on the sides • 
the lateral ones number three or four on each side of each 
ring. The lower part of the body has a golden tinge. 
OLTGORUS MACQUARIENSIS. 
( M urray Cod.) 
A specimen obtained on the 2nd of July is entirely covered 
with round obscure spots, which extend to the soft dorsal and 
anal ; on these fins they are placed in a regular manner. 
UPBNEUS VLAMINGII. 
Upeneus Vlamingii, Cuv. & Vol., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, 
viii., p. 452, pi. 71. 
Upenoides Vlamingii, Gunth., Cat., vol. i., p. 400. 
I saw in the Melbourne Market, on the 8 th of November 
last, two specimens of this sort, which was described at first 
as inhabiting the Indian sea, and has since been quoted by 
Richardson (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 1862, p. 211) as having 
been found at Queen Charlotte's Sound. The upper part is of 
a greyish green ; the sides are of a yellowish white with pink 
tinges, and the lower parts of a deep saffron yellow. It is 
covered with numerous rounded spots of a beautiful blue, each 
surrounded by a dark circle ; these spots become purple and 
pink on the belly. The head is of a golden grey, with lines 
of a fine blue ; the eye has an internal yellow circle, and the 
remaining is blue, with transverse yellow and crimson spots ; 
dorsal fins grey, marbled with yellow ; caudal olive, spotted 
with blue, and having its lower edge red ; pectorals pink ; 
anal of a saffron yellow, with its anterior part bordered with 
red ; ventrals yellow, with a longitudinal blue spot on the 
middle, and their anterior edges red. 
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