152 ICHTHYOLOGY 
statement made by these naturalists, that the Western Port 
they mention is situated on the North Western Coast of New 
Holland. It is certainly strange that Baudin's naturalists 
should have observed, during the few days they remained in 
that Bay, a fish that seems so rare. 
The adipose eyelid is not developed ; the anal fin has ten 
soft rays ; the longitudinal line is formed of thirty-five large 
scales, and of six small caudal ones, making forty-one ; there 
is no scale behind the base of the pectorals ; the upper lip is 
not thick ; the vertical fins are not scaly ; the first dorsal spine 
is longer than the other, and half the length of the head ; the 
anal inserted on the vertical of the second dorsal ; the head as 
long as the breadth of the body ; the diameter of the eye con- 
tained nearly once and a-half in the snout ; the space between 
the eyes contained twice and two-thirds in the length of the 
head. Maxillaries visible ; height of the body contained four 
times in the length without the caudal ; this fin is as long, at its 
centre, as the space from the posterior edge of the eye to the 
extremity of the operculum ; ventrals inserted nearer to the 
pectorals than to the first dorsal; the depth of the tail is 
equal to the height of the head at the posterior edge of the 
orbit ; the space at the chin between the mandibles is strongly 
emarginated. 
Upper parts of a slate colour; sides and belly white and 
silvery; on the first, some very faint longitudinal streaks 
formed by the lines which are on the middle of the scales ; a 
golden spot at the upper angle of the operculum ; eye silvery. 
The specimen is ten inches long. 
This sort is very much like M. Waigiensis, but is shorter ; 
the tail higher ; the lobes of the caudal are more pointed, with 
its centre longer ; head more pointed when seen sideways, but 
at its upper part it is not quite so broad, and rather angular 
in front ; pectorals longer, extending to the ninth scale of the 
longitudinal line, and of a lighter colour, with a dark spot on 
their base ; second dorsal not emarginated but pointed up- 
wards and white ; anal higher, and having its upper part 
shorter and its lower one much longer than the upper. 
