EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 
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.anterior rays produced, the 1st the longest, varying in length from 3'66 in the 
young to 2*9 in the adult, or even in individual eases to 2-6 in the body-length, 
and extending when depressed to between the base of the antepenultimate and 
the tip of the last ray, Avhieh is not produced. Caudal fin very long and deeply 
forked, the lobes acute, tlie upjAer the longer, 2*65 to 2*15 in the body-length. 
Anal fin with ii, i 21 to 25 rays, originating l^elow the 3rd or 4th dorsal ray, its 
lobe as In'gh as or higher than that of the soft dorsal, 3-65 to 2-2 in the length of 
the body and extending when depressed to betw(‘on the last ray and the proximal 
fifth of the lower caudal lobe. Pectoral pointed, A\dth 17 rays, its length 5 to 6*2 
in that of the bod.y, 4th ray longest, reaching in the young to above the free anal 
spines, in the adult not to the level of the vent. Ventral small, inserted Avell 
behind the pectoral-base, its length 1*33 to 1-8 in that of the pectoral and 7 
to 11-25 in that of the body ; 2nd ray longest, extending to the vent or not 
quite so far. 
Gill-rakers moderately long and strong, 4 to 8 13 to 15 on the anterior 
arch, the longest 6-5 to 7 in the length of the head and as long as the gill-fringes. 
Vent midway between the origin of the ventral and the 1st or 2nd anal ray. 
Upper surfaces dark blue-gray, shading to silvery below the lateral line, 
the breast and abdomen milk white; a series of six or seven vertically oval dark 
spots on each side; these are mostly above the lateral line only the anterior 
two, or rarely three, crossing it interiorly, though one or more of the others may 
touch it; these spots are soijietimes obscure or, though rarely, absent in the 
young. Dorsal, caudal, and anal lobes indigo blue. {Bolla: the native name 
of the species at Vizagapatam according to Russell.) 
Described from a fine series of six graded specimens, measuring respec- 
tively 131, 141, 155, 225, 240, ami 32S iniilini., obtained in IMoreton Bay, and 
presented to the Queensland IMuseuni by Messrs. Jolliffe, Palmer (3), and the 
Amateur Fishermen Association of Queensland (3). 
Specific name: — We have found it necessary to reinstate Shawls name 
for our fish in the place of the more commonly employed T. russelUi, because both 
Shaw and Valenciennes founded their names on RusselPs figure, and there can 
be, therefore, no justification for rejecting the eaidier name. 
Historical: — First described and figured by Russell in 1803, it does not 
seem to have attracted further notice until thirty years had elapsed, when 
Valenciennes recorded a specimen sent to him by Sonnerat from Pondicherry, 
Avhich he believed to l)e the same species as RusselPs '' hoila-parah.'' About the 
same time he received from Java, through those energetic and unfortunate young 
explorers Kuhl and van Ilasselt and simultatuiously from Pondicherry through 
Dussumier, a trachinote, which he separated from his T. russeUi under the name 
T. oblonfjus. No valid characters distinguishing the two forms are, however, 
;given, and they are nOAv generally admitted to be identical. Blceker and Gunther, 
