CONTRIBUTION 
TO THB 
ICHTHYOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA. 
No. V.— NOTES ON FISHES FROM NORTH 
AUSTRALIA. 
Most of the fishes I have seen from the northern part of the 
Australian Continent were kindly sent to me by Mr. Water- 
house, the Curator of the South Australian Museum, and are 
from Port Darwin. As might be expected, a great part of 
them belong to Indian sorts. 
The only sort here described from a different locality is a most 
curious little fish, which was given to me by Mr. Ch. French, 
and was found by one of the members of the Melbourne 
Eclipse Expedition. I have been unable to ascertain to what 
family it belongs. 
THERAPON THERAPS. 
Therapon Theraps, Guv. and Val, vol. iii, p. 129. 
Remarkable by its silvery colour, marked with three obscure 
longitudinal narrow streaks ; the two superior ones arched 
and the third straight; the latter situated below the middle 
of the body and extending to the extremity of the caudal. This 
has also two other similar oblique bands, one on each lobee of 
the caudal ; the extremity of the upper one is also obscure. 
A large purple spot covers a considerable part of the spinous 
dorsal, and some spots of the same colour are also on the soft 
portion of the same. Common in the Indian and Chinese 
Seas. 
Port Darwin. 
