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The colour, after having been in spirits, is silvery, with the 
back of a fine light blue J head and fins of a rather brownish 
yellow. 
There is no trace whatever of the transverse bands or lines 
mentioned by Cuvier and Valenciennes, but this may depend 
on the age of the specimen. 
Dr. Gunther (Catal., vol. ii., p. 499) places doubtfully, with 
this species, the Equula Serrulifera of Kichard., Ereb. and 
Terror, p. 137, pi. 59; but, judging by this plate, it would 
be very distinct by the strong denticulations which arm some 
of the dorsal spines. 
Port Darwin. 
ELEOTEIS MOGURNDA. 
Eleotris Mogurnda, Richard., Ereb. and Terror, pi. 2, fig. 1. 
Gunther, Catal, vol. iii., pi. 111. 
Several small specimens about two inches long, appear to 
belong to that sort by their broad snout and the three rather 
oblique dark stripes they have on their cheeks and opercles. 
The body appears yellow, marbled with brown ; the upper 
parts of the last colour; a series of round dark blotches 
extend along the lateral line ; the one at the base of the caudal 
generally darker than the others. The dorsal and caudal are 
finely marked with brown. Some of the dorsal rays are 
rather produced in one of the specimens. 
Port Darwin. 
ELEOfRIS MODESTA. 
Body very elongate, contained four times and five-eighths in 
the total length of the fish, or a little over four times in the 
same without the caudal ; head three times and a half in the 
same ; eye three times and a fifth in the length of the head. 
The snout is considerably shorter than the diameter of the 
eye ; it is rather depressed but not very broad, its breadth in 
front of the eyes being equal to the distance from its extremity 
to the first third of the diameter of these organs. The cleft 
of the mouth is oblique, and does not extend to the perpen- 
dicular from the anterior edge of the eye. Operculums 
