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 but one fourth of that of the head. The Australian Museum is fortunate in possessing a second specimen of this interesting and evidently scarce soilenid, of which McCulloch writes as follows: — "A nice little specimen, registered as having been collected by yourself in the Brisbane River in 1886, is Pseudo- myeterus maccullochi. I had almost identified it with Corrina comes de Vis. This example was taken by hook at the rocks below Thorn street, Kangaroo Point. Many old Brisbane anglers consider that this is, to the best of their belief, the species which was known to them many years ago as the "golden perch," and which disappeared so mysteriously after the great flood of 1893. McCulloch's identification of my 1886 fish with P. maccullochi lends color to this suggestion.

Our illustration is drawn from the holotype of P. maccullochi.

SCIÆNA SOLDADO (Lacépele).

(Plate XXIV.);

Holocentrus soldado Laćepède, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, pp. 344, 390. Tella Katchelee Bussell, Fish. Vizag., ii, 1803, p. 13, pi, cxvii. Corvina miles Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1830, p. 94; idd., ibid., ix, 1833, p. 479; Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Gen., sxiii, 1850, Scisen., p. 17; Jeidon, Madras Journ. Lit. & Sei., 1851, p. 131; Günther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1800, p. 300; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, 1884, p. 23.

Scicena argentea (Kuhl & van Hasselt) Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 95.

Corvina soldado Cantor, Catal. Malay. Pish., 1850, p. 70.

Corvina wolffi Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., ii, 1851, p. 60.

Corvina sampitensis Bleeker, ibid., iii., 1852, p. 421.

Corvina celebica Bleeker, ibid., vii, 1854, p. 244.

Corvina dorsalis Peters, Arch. f. Nat., 1855, i, p. 242.

Johnius miles Bleeker, ibid., xviii, 1859, p. 364.

Johnius celebicus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 1860, Borneo, p, 12.

Pseudosciæna miles Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amst., xiv, 1874, Sciien. p. 23; Atlas Ichth., viii, , pi. ccclxxxv, fig. 3.

Scicæna miles Day, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 185, pi. xliii, fig. 5: Klunzinger. Sitz, Akad. Wien, lxxx, 1880, i, p. 372.

Sciana mülleri Steindachner, Denk. Akad. Wien, xli, 1879, i, p. 1; Klunzinger, ibid.

Corvina argentea Maeleay, ibid., viii, 1883, p. 204.

SILVER JEWFISH.

Type localities: — Pondicherry (C miles).

Java (S. argentea K. & v. H.).

Banjermassin, Borneo (C. wolffii).

Sampit, Borneo (C. sampitensis).

Macassar, Celebes (C. celebicus).

Quilimane (C. dorsalis).

South Australia (C. mülleri).

Lower Burdekin (C. argentea Mel.).

Body deep and strongly compressed, the dorsal contour much more arched than the ventral, which is nearly linear from the isthmus to the anal fin, its width