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iiidistiiict colours. Tlie lirst dorsal is greenisli, witli its external 
))art ratter darker ; tlie second is yellow, as is also tte last ; the 
upper are black, and the lower white ; the anal and ven- 
trals are of the latter colour ; the pectorals are almost black ; 
the eye is silvery. 
I have only seen one specimen of this fish on the Melbourne 
Market, in the month of September ; it measured 13 inches. 
This sort appears very distinct from Scomber Australasicus 
which has an air-bladder, and Avhose fins have — • 
Dorsal 9 — -1 — 12. Anal 2 — 11. 
ZBIJS. 
The fish on which this genus was originally formed is known 
since the earliest ages, and the people on the shores of the Medi- 
terranean give it the name of Scdnf. Peter’’ s Fish. 
The first mention of an Australian species is due to Eichardson 
(“ Frebus and Terror ”), but the only specimen he had seen was 
in such a bad state of preservation that he thought at first that it 
might belong to Gapros Australis that he had himself previously 
described in the third volume of the “ Zoological Transactions ’ 
but in a later part of the “ Fishes of the Frebus and Terror’’ he 
states that he has been able to examine a more perfect specimen 
from W estern Australia, and he maintains his Zeus Australis. 
Dr. Grunther, in the second volume of his Catalogue, considers 
this sort as the ordinary European one, and, without the least 
doubt occurring in his mind, states that this inhabits the Mediter- 
ranean, Atlantic, and Australian seas. The fact that it had 
never been observed out of Europe, or at least south of the 
Canary Islands, and that the different species found at 
Madeira and the Cape of Grood Hope were specifically 
different from the European one, might perhaps have led a 
Zoologist to admit the probability of a specific difference 
in sorts whose habitat is so remote. The Madeira sort 
is the Conchifer of Lowe, and the kSouth African one the 
Capensis of Cuvier and A" alenciennes ; but it is true that these 
last authors say that Messrs. Webb and Berthelot have found 
the common sort at Teiieriff. 
