dorsal fins of the same colour and hyaline, with the rays marbled 
with yellow and brown ; caudal yellow, with four or five transverse 
crimson bands ; anal pink ; ventrals yellowish ; pectorals yellow, 
with several narrow crimson lines of spots ; eye yellow. 
Seen only once ; taken in the Straits of Bass, and dedicated to 
the celebrated discoverer of that region. 
SILLAGO. 
Genus formed by Cuvier in the “Eegne Animal,” on a fish 
that Bloch had placed with Scimna and Eussel with Sparus. 
Porskal had made an Atherina of a sort he had found in the Red 
Sea. Cuvier placed this genus with his Fercidce, on account 
of the denticulations of its praeopercule, and of the point that 
terminates its opercle, as also on account of the presence of 
teeth on the vomer ; but Dr. Gunther has included it in the 
rather hetrogeneous family he calls TraoTiinidx. It has certainly 
very little natural affinities with the group in which Cuvier had 
included it. 
Most of the sorts inhabit the Indian Sea ; others are said 
by Cuvier and Valenciennes to be found in Australia ; but I 
have only observed two of them. Bassensis, which was found at 
Western Port by d’Urville’s Expedition, has not yet come under 
my notice, and Giliata was originally found at Cape York, but 
Dr. Gunther also records it from Tasmania and Sydney. 
I cannot agree with this last anthor in considering Bassensis as 
a synonyme of Macnlata; and as I have seen many thousand 
specimens of Sillago from Western Port, which all belonged to 
Punctata, I should be inclined to think it may be a variety of 
that sort, perhaps rather similar to the white one I describe 
below. 
SHLAGO POTCTATA. 
Sillago punctata, Cm. ^ Val., v. iii., p. 413. 
{The Whiting.') 
Form very elongate ; height of body eight times in total 
length ; head five times in the same ; orbit four and a-half times 
in the length of head. The dorsal has twelve spines at its first 
fin, and one with twenty-six rays at its second ; the anal has one 
spine and twenty-two rays ; the caudal is strongly bifurcated. 
