OF AUSTRALIA. 
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GALAXIAS ORNATUS. 
Body elongate ; its height contained seven times in the 
total length ; head as long as the height of the body ; lower 
jaw rather longer than the upper one ; eye rather shorter than 
the snout, and contained four times in the length of the head ; 
the dorsal of ten rays, the first of which is very short ; this 
fin is inserted at a distance from the snout double to the one 
up to the base of the caudal ; this last strongly emarginated ; 
anal placed a little behind the dorsal of eleven rays ; the ven- 
trals are inserted at an equal distance to the base of the 
pectorals and to the one of the anal ; they have seven rays ; 
the pectorals are as long as the space between the posterior 
edge of the eye and the extremity of the operculum ; they 
have twelve rays. 
The colour of the living specimen was of a light green, with 
the lower parts of a golden yellow ; the back has numerous 
transverse bands, rather narrow, but well defined, of an 
obscure green. These bands are not agglomerations of fine 
points, as in many other species ; eyes yellow ; fins of a light 
yellow. 
The largest of my specimens measures four and a-half inches. 
From the Cardinia Creek, Victoria. 
