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Very mucli like the two precedents, but the body much highe 
and more gibbous on the back than even in Oimtheri. The first 
ventral ray prolongated in a bifid filament. 
The upper part of the body is green, with the border of the 
scales darker ; lower parts of the body yellow ; the lateral line 
dark ; sides of the head purple ; upper part of the pectorals 
pink, with their lower portion yellow. The dorsal, caudal, and 
anal are purple ; the ventrals pink, with the spine white. 
Sometimes common in the market, from ten to twelve inches 
long. From the Murray. 
MTJEEATIA BEAMOIDES. 
{Murray Bream ^ 
D. 11/12. A. f. C. 17. P. 16. L. 1. 52. L. tr. 9i/16|. 
Height four times in total length ; head three and two-thirds 
in same ; orbit three and eight-tenths in length of head. The 
body is rather short, similar to Ountlieri. Head very cavernous ; 
prseoperculum straight on its back edge, and finely ciliated and 
serrulated. On the posterior angle, which is rounded, the den- 
ticulations become larger and blunt ; those on the lower margin 
are directed forwards ; there are several spaces devoid of denticu- 
lations between them. The inner edge of the operculum pro- 
duces towards its angle a sort of roimded flap. The operculum 
is thinly serrated, and has two angles, the lower of 'which i.s a 
sort of flap divided into five flat spines. The praeorbital i,s not 
strongly denticulated ; the suprascapula is like a segment of a 
little round saw. The lateral line extends on the root of the caudal. 
The base of the spines is scaly ; the longest spine of the dorsal is 
the fifth ; the others grow shorter as they go backwards ; the first 
is very small, the second longer, the third twice as long as the 
precedents, the fourth about one-third longer again, and not much 
shorter than the following. The spines of the anal are rather 
slender — the first much shorter than the others, the second being 
the longest ; the spine of the ventrals is long, and rather slender ; 
the first soft ray of the same fin is prolonged on a filament. 
The general colour is of a dirty yellow. Each scale has an 
obscure border ; head brown, with the lower parts reddish ; fins 
