The Snapper grows to a large size, attaining from thirty to forty pounds weight, and is very voracious.  It devours crabs and shell fish, crushing them with its strong teeth.  It is common on all the rocky inlets of the coast of New Holland, extending down the eastern shores to Sidney.

CHAETODONTIDAE.

No. 41.—­CHAETODON SEXFASCIUTUS.  Richardson Ann. of Nat.  Hist.—­Native name KNELOCK.

Inhabits rocky places.  Not common.

No. 40.—­CHAETODON.—­Native name MITCHEBULLER or METYEBULLAR.  Teeth very minute.

Inhabits rocky places.  Speared by Warrawar, on the 27th of May, 1841.

No. 27.2.—­CHAETODON.—­Native name WAMEL or WAMLE.  “Rays, D. 10-20; A. 3-17.”

No. 6.—­PLATAX?—­Native names, TEUTUEK or KARLOCK, from the shape of the fins, also MUDEUR.  “Striped sweep” of the sealers, and Pomfret of the settlers.  D. 10; A. 2.  Teeth small.  Very common on rocky shores.  Is a gross feeder; but good to eat.  Caught by a hook on the 12th of March, 1841.

No. 8—­PIMELEPTERUS?  MELANICHTHYS?—­Native names, KGNMMUL or KARRAWAY.  The striped zebra fish of the settlers.  “Rays, D. 14-12; A. 3 11; V. 1-5.”  Mouth, small; tail rather concave.

Inhabits rocky shores, is a gross feeder, bad eating, and is not common.  Caught by the hook on the 6th of April 1841.

No. 10.—­PIMELEPTERUS?  MELANICHTHYS?  Schlegel.—­Native names, KOWELANY, KARRAWAY, or MEMON.  Tail a little forked.  “Rays, D. 14-13; A.3-11; P. 17; V. 1-5.”  Eye, grey.

Inhabits rocky shores, and is not very common.  Caught by a hook, on the 6th of April, 1841.

No. 17.—­MELANICHTHYS.—­Native name MEMON or muddier.  “Rays, D. 14-13; A. 3-11; P. 17; V. 1-5.”

Eye greyish yellow; teeth in a trenchant series on the edge of the upper and lower jaw, and also on the maxillaries.  Is a gross feeder, and its flesh has a strong disagreeable smell, but is much relished by the Aborigines.

Inhabits rocky shores, and is rare.  Caught by hook, 3rd May, 1841.

No. 33.  Genus unknown.—­Native name, TOOBETOET or TOOBITOO-it.  Rays, D. 17-11; A. 11; P. 11; V. 4.

Is a rare inhabitant of rocky places.  Speared by Mooriane, 14th of May, 1841.  This seems to be a new generic form, nearly allied to HOPLEGNATHUS, Richardson; or SCARODON, Schlegel.

No. 43.—­SCORPIS?—­Native name, MEMON or MEEMON.  “Sweep” of the sealers.  “Rays, D.; A. 1.”  Teeth minute.  It is a gross feeder and poor eating.  Very common on rocky shores.  Being a bold voracious fish, it is easily speared or taken with a hook.  The Aborigines generally select a rock which jutts out into the sea, and sitting on their hams, beat crabs into fragments with a little stone, and throw them into the sea to attract this fish.  The instant a fish comes to feed on the bait, the native, whose spear is ready, suddenly darts it, and rarely fails in bringing up the fish on its barbed point.  Specimen caught by the hook, 15th of June, 1841.