OF NEW SOUTH WALE8. 1^^ 



spots ; all the fins finely variegated with brown ; several olive 

 brown lines on the sides of the head. This species resembles 

 sulcaticollis, but the head is much narrower. From the Fitzroy 

 River (Rockhampton). 



The specimen, four inches long, belongs to the Queensland 



Museum. 



AtHERINICHTHYS DUBOULA.YI. 



Height of the body contained only three times and one sixth in 

 the total length without the caudal fin ; head four times in the 

 same ; body oval, oblong, compressed ; the head rather pointed ; 

 the eye contained four times in the head ; the spinous dorsal 

 commences a little in front of the insertion of the ventral ; the 

 first dorsal formed of one spine and five rays, the three first of 

 which are rather produced ; the second dorsal is formed of one 

 spine and thirteen rays, the last of which are rather produced ; 

 the caudal is strongly forked ; the anal of one spine and thirteen 

 rays, the last of which are rather produced ; there are thirty 

 scales on the lateral line. 



I owe my specimen of this fish, which is a little over three 

 inches long, to Mr. Duboulay who found it in a lagoon of fresh 

 water connected with the Richmond River. He says that the 

 colours were during life most beautiful ; that a broad stripe of 

 magnificent blue ran all along the sides, and that two transverse 

 bands of rich scarlet extended on the upper part of the fish 

 towards the middle of the body. 



EUMEDA, N. GEN. 

 Belongs to the Siluridce Heteropterce of Gunther, and probably 

 comes near Siluriclithys. Body elongate, compressed ; eye placed 

 on the upper part of the head ; one dorsal fin with a pungent spine ; 

 adipose, none ; anal very long and joining the caudal which is 

 obliquely truncated ; ventrals inserted behind the perpendicular 

 from the dorsal ; three pairs of short barbels, on the anterior 

 part of the snout, at the angle of the mouth, and on the 

 lower jaw ; lateral line continued all the length of the body ; 

 teeth on both jaws numerous crowded and tubercular with a 

 line of sharp conical ones in front ; nostrils remote from each other j 

 head and body covered with a soft skin. 



