It will lay for a minute looking with indifference at its enemy, while he poises the fatal and unerring spear.

Specimen caught in a net, December, 1841.
SILLAGINIDAE.
No.

25 .-- SILLAGO .-- Native name, MURDAR.

"Rock whiting" of the settlers.
"Rays, D.10-23; A.18; P.13; A.5." Inhabits rocky shores and deep water.

Caught by the seine, 3rd April, 1841.