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from the others. It agrees better with Psenes, but the limb of 
the prffioperculum is striated and crenulated. 
Dr. Gunther, in the second volume of his valuable catalogue, 
has established a genus Neptonemus amongst Scombrid<s, to 
which he gives the following characters : — “ Body oblong, com- 
pressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate size ; the cleft 
of the mouth of moderate width ; the snout obtusely conical ; 
prseoperculer margin obtusely crenulated ; the first dorsal con- 
tinuous, with some feeble spines ; the second dorsal and the anal 
are more developed, with a scaly sheath at the base ; no finlets ; 
anal spines indistinct : pectorals much longer than the ventrals ; 
a series of minute teeth in the jaws ; palate toothless ; branch- 
iostegals six.” One single sort from New Zealand {Neptonemim 
Brama) . 
In the second part of the “ Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society for 1869,” the same naturalist describes a second sort, 
under the name of Dobiila, from Tasmania, and adds, — that on a 
further examination he finds that this genus belongs to the 
family of Garangidce, and that there are two very small spines in 
front of, and at a short distance from the anal fin. 
Almost all these characters applying to my sort, I have 
placed it in the genus Neptonemus \ but it cannot be the New 
Zealand sort, which has one spine and twenty -nine rays at the 
second dorsal, nor the Tasmanian one, which has — Pirst dorsal 7. 
Second dorsal 1/40. Anal 2 1/23. 
KEPTONEMUS ? TEA VALE. 
{The Travale). 
The body oblong, rather compressed, high, very curved over 
the eyes ; the greatest depth is at the insertion of the 
second dorsal, and is contained two and two-thirds in the 
total length ; the length of the head is not quite four 
times in the same ; the snout is short ; the eye large, placed 
at half the height of the head, and contained three and two- 
third times in its length ; the lower jaw is longer than the upper 
one ; the cleft of the mouth extends to the line of the anterior 
margin of the eye ; the nostrils nearer to the end of the snout 
than to the orbit ; upper part of the head naked ; cheeks and 
operculum scaly ; teeth numerous and fine, all equal, and dis- 
