FLATFISHES. NORMAN. 295 



5. Brachirus ~breviceps. 



Brachirus breviceps, Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 

 XXIII, 1910, p. 36. 



Synaptura breviceps, McCulloch, Mem. Queensland Mus., 

 V, 1916, p. 63, fig. 1. 



Known only from the type from Rockhampton, 

 Queensland. Perhaps identical with B. selheimi, but 

 appears to have a somewhat shallower body and 

 narrower interorbital region. 



6. Brachirus fasciatus. 



Synaptura fasciata, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 VII, 1883, p. 14 ; Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 33 

 (1887) ; Waite, Mem. Austral. Mus., IV, 1899, p. 

 126, pi. XXXI; Stead, Edible Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 

 107 (1908); McCulloch, Mem. Queensland Mus., V, 

 1916, p. 61, pi. VIII, fig. 2; Austral. Zool., II, 1921, 

 p. 46, pi. XIII. 



Hal). Coast of New South Wales. 



7. Brachirus mueUeri. 



Synaptura mueUeri, Steindachner, Deuk. K. Ak. Wiss. 

 Wien, XLI, 1879, p. 4; Klunzinger, Sitzber. K. Ak. 

 Wiss. Wien, LXXX, Abt. 1, 1880, p. 408. 



Synaptura arafurensis, Giinther, Shore Fishes 

 "Challenger," p. 49 (1881). 



Depth of body 2 to 2^ in the length, length of head 

 4f to 5. Eyes contiguous, raised above head, the upper a 

 little in advance of lower, sub-equal in size, their 

 diameter about 1| in snout and 5 to 5^ in head. Mouth 

 extending to below anterior part of eye. Lower lip of 

 ocular side fringed. Both nostrils of ocular side tubular, 

 simple, the anterior the longer. Dorsal 61-70 ; anal 48-57 ; 

 caudal 14-15; the posterior rays of dorsal and anal com- 

 pletely joined to the caudal, which is obtusely pointed. 

 Right pectoral shorter than diameter of eye, upper rays 

 not produced; left pectoral smaller, the upper ray some- 

 what produced. Pelvics subsyinmetrical, free from anal. 

 Scales 70 to 78 28 to 32 ctenoid, those of ocular side some- 



33 to 37' 



what more strongly denticulated than those of blind side ; 

 extending on to basal part of vertical fin-rays and on to 

 the membrane between them; those on the blind side of 

 head mostly produced into barbel-like processes; a 



