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Show 824 DR. A. GUNTHER ON LATES CALCAR1FER. [Dec. 6, 4. On the Occurrence of Lates calcarifer in Australia. By Dr. A. G U N T H E R , F.Z.S. Mr. Sclater has received several specimens of a Perch from Mr. E.'P. Ramsay, C.M.Z.S., of Dobroyde, Sydney, N.S.W. They were obtained from salt water at the mouth of the Fitzroy River, Queensland. At the first glance, I believed them to be the Australian Psammoperca waigiensis ; but on a closer inspection I found that they had the lower limb of tbe praeoperculum armed with four strong spines, and that they were of a species oi Lates not distinguishable from the Indian Lates calcarifer. This species is known to inhabit fresh and brackish waters, and probably also enters the sea. The British Museum possesses a series of examples, with perfectly reliable information as regards the localities where they were obtained :-one example from the coast of North-western India (Playfair), several from tbe Ganges (Hamilton-Buchanan &c), one from Amoy (Swinhoe), several from China (Reeves), one from North China (Jamrach). Bleeker records specimens in his collection from Java, Madura, Banka, Borneo, and Celebes. The second Australian species of Lates (apparently limited to this continent) is Lates colonorum. The pseudobranchise of Lates calcarifer are an extremely narrow strip of very short laminae, and easily overlooked. 5. Description of an Adult Skull of Eupleres goudoti. By Dr. J. E. G R A Y , F.R.S. &c. (Plate LI.) Flacourt, in his book on Madagascar, describes an animal under the name of Falanouc, which Doyere thinks he has identified with a young animal from Madagascar, sent to the Jardin des Plantes by M. Goudot. He described it under the name of Eupleres goudotii; but Schlegel, in the Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. vol. i. p. 292, in his list of Madagascar mammalia, observes it is not at all proved that the Falanouc of Flacourt (p. 154) is the Eupleres goudotii of naturalists. Eupleres goudotii is described by M. Doyere, in the Ann. des Sc. Naturelles, 1835, vol. iv. p. 281, tab. xviii., from a very young animal preserved in spirits, and its skull. He describes the fur as very dark brown, with a fulvous under-fur, and two black streaks across the shoulders. The same skull is figured in Blainville's 'Osteographie' as Viverra goudotii, tab. viii., aud also tbe bones of the feet and other parts of the same. I am not aware that the adult animal of this species has been observed. M M . Pollen and Van Dam do not appear to have observed it; at least it is not so stated in M. Schlegel's list of their animals, nor is it figured in their work. The British Museum has lately received a large cat-like animal, |