788 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN ELEOTRIN^, 



Subgenus Austrogobio. 



Carassiops galii, sp.nov'. 

 Gale's Carp-Gudgeon. 



D. vii-viii, i 10-12. A. i 11-U. Sc. 29-30/8. 



Depth of body 3| to 4, length of head 3| to 34 in the total 

 length; depth of head 1| to If, width of head If to If, of the 

 gently convex interorbital region 4 to 4|, diameter of eye 3i to 

 3| in the length of the head; snout obtuse, i to -^^ of a diameter 

 shorter than the eye. Maxillary extending to or nearly to the 

 vertical from the anterior border of the eye, its length 3f to 34 

 in that of the head. 7 gill-rakers on the lower branch of the 

 anterior arch. The space between the origin of the first dorsal 

 and the extremity of the snout is from 4 more to \ less than its 

 distance from the base of the last soft ray; the fifth and sixth 

 spines are the longest, 1| to 2| in the length of the head and 

 reaching to or beyond the origin of the second dorsal; the posterior 

 soft rays are the longest, 14 to 1^ in the head : the anal fin com- 

 mences below the origin of and is similar to the second dorsal : 

 fourth ventral ray the longest, 1^ to If in the head and reaching 

 to or not quite to the vent: pectoral with 15 rays, reaching to 

 the vertical fi'om the end of the first dorsal, l;]-to If in the head: 

 caudal rather short, 44 to 4| in the total length; caudal peduncle 

 rather slender, its least depth 24 to 3i in its length, which is 

 equal to or rather more than the head. Genital papilla oblong, 

 extending to the anal or not so far. All the scales imbricate, 

 those of the head, nape, and throat cycloid and smaller than the 

 body scales, which are of equal size and ciliated. Vertebrae 30 

 or 31 (16 + 14-15). 



Pale olive-green, more or less clouded above with purplish- 

 brown : fins hyaline, the dorsals and anal with a broad coppery 

 marginal band: irides silvery, 



1 am unable to give the true habitat of this species, which is 

 only known to me from a stone tank in the Botanical Gardens, 



