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and has seventeen long rays and four shorter ones on each side ; 
the pectorals have fourteen rays. 
The upper parts are of a brownish grey ; the sides and lower 
parts are white; these latter are covered with numerous very small, 
irregularly placed, but rounded spots of an obscure brownish 
colour ; fins rather olive colour ; the caudal yellow ; the anal 
and ventrals white ; eyes silvery. 
Very common on the Melbourne Market almost all the year 
round ; it is esteemed for the table. Average length, from 8 to 
14 inches. 
I have one specimen 9 inches long, of a white silvery colour, 
the back having only a greyish tinge ; the spots very minute, 
and in reduced number ; they were very little visible on the fresh 
specimen ; the muzzle is a little shorter, and more regularly 
convex ; the eye is a little larger than in the typical specimens. 
SILLAGO MACTTLATA. 
Sillago maculata, Q,uoy et Gaimard, Exped. Frei/cinet Zool., 
pi. 53, fig. 2. 
Cm. ^ Val., Poissons, v. iii., p. 411. 
The body is oval, much shorter than in Punctata. The first 
dorsal has eleven spines, and the second one spine and eighteen 
rays ; the caudal has seventeen long rays ; the anal two spines 
and nineteen rays ; the pectorals have sixteen. 
The height is five times and a-half in the total length, and the 
head less than three times in the same. 
The upper parts are of a light olive colour, marbled with rather 
large brown spots ; the lower parts are white ; on each side of 
the body is a rather broad longitudinal band ; the fins are 
diaphanous, with the rays spotted with orange ; the exterior 
portions of the dorsal and the caudal rather obscure ; the eye is 
silvery. Length, 6 inches. 
Only seen once in September. 
POLYNEMID^. 
“ Body compressed and oblong, corered with 
scales, feebly ciliated or without serrature. Lateral 
line continuous, continued on the tail. Mouth at 
