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longer than twice the spine ; the following are shorter. The 
second dorsal is formed of twenty-three soft rays ; the caudal is 
truncated posteriorly of thirteen long rays, with one shorter one 
on each side. 
The anal is divided in two ; the first portion is formed of four 
strong straight spines ; the membranes which unite these having 
each a pointed angle. The second anal is formed of twenty-two 
rays, it has the same form as its corresponding dorsal ; the ven- 
trals are large, being longer than the snout, when not extended ; 
they are formed of a slender spine and of six rays ; pectorals 
small, with fourteen rays. 
The disposition of the colours is similar to that of the Euro- 
pean sort : the general hue is a dark green, with yellow tinges 
on the sides of the head and body ; the outer visible parts of the 
mouth are lilac colour ; towards the centre of the fish there is a 
large rounded black blotch, surrounded by a wide circle, and 
below this the body is often variegated with purple and white. 
The first dorsal, caudal, first anal, and ventrals are green, 
with the spines or rays purple ; the second dorsal and second 
anal are white and transparent, with their rays green ; the pec- 
torals of a light green ; the eye yellow, with a purple tinge. 
The Dorey is very rare on the Melbourne Market, and I have 
only seen three specimens of it, which were all taken in the 
month of August. It is considered a great delicacy. 
Nota. — Professor M'Coy {Report Intercolonial HxJiib., 1866,) 
says that he has often caught in Hobson’s Bay the Cyttus Aus- 
tralis of Richardson {Capros), which I have not yet met with. 
HISTIOPTEEUS. 
This most singular genus was established in the “ Eauna 
Japonica.” Richardson, in his “Pishes of the Hrelus and 
Terror,” describes the Australian sort from a single head that 
had been brought from Tasmania. 
HISTIOPTEEUS EECUEVrEOSTETS. 
Histiopterus recurvirostris, Richard,, Erebus and Terror, 
page 34, pi. xxii. 
(The Boar Fish or Bastard Dorey. 
The height is rather over three times and a-half in the total 
length ; the head is three times and a-half in the same ; the orbit 
is four and one-third times in the length of the head. 
