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aOBITTS PtTLCHELlTJS. 
Form elongate. Height of the body four and three-quarter 
times in the total length ; head three and a-half times in same. 
The first dorsal is rounded, with six rays ; the first shorter than 
the second, the third rather longer than the others, and the 
following go on decreasing ; the second dorsal has twelve rays. 
In both, the rays are much longer than the membranes. The 
caudal is rounded, with twelve rays ; anal with one spine and 
nine rays, formed like those of the dorsal ; ventrals large, united, 
pointed, with their lower rays much longer than the others. 
Pectorals rather large, extending to nearly the end of the first 
dorsal, of fifteen rays. Scales large ; about twenty -three of them 
on the lateral line ; eye moderately large, ^placed on the upper 
surface of the head. 
G-eneral colour of a light grey, with the edges of the scales 
brown ; lower parts of the body opal and white ; head marbled 
with white spots ; operculum covered with very minute black 
dots ; front part of the head rather yellow. Three large round 
black spots on each side of the body — one opposite to the begin- 
ning of the second dorsal, the other to its end, and the third at 
the root of the caudal. There are also some undefined, trans- 
verse, white stripes on the sides of the body. .Dorsal hyaline, 
marbled with brown spots, a black spot covering nearly the 
exterior half of the first membrane. Second dorsal with its rays 
spotted with brown, and yellow at their end. Caudal with the 
rays also spotted with brown, the spots forming five or six transverse 
lines of that colour. Anal large, white, with the rays yellow at their 
base, and black to almost their full extent ; ventrals black, with 
their base white ; pectorals rather yellow, marbled with white ; 
their rays covered with very small, black dots. Eye yellow, with 
orange spots on its exterior edge. 
Length, two and one-third inches. From Western Port. 
It is nearly allied to Goliws Fictus. 
ELEOTEIS. 
Formed by Gronovius, but much better characterised by 
Cuvier. Phis genus has numerous representatives in all the 
warm seas of the world ; it inhabits the fresh waters, but extends 
