134 A NEW FAMILY OF AUSTHALIAN FISHES, 



9. R. (foldiei;- Ansteus goldiei, Macleay, I.e. viii. 1883, p. 269. 

 Goldie River, New Guinea. 



10. R. ;jer/(erosi«.N'; = Aristeus perperosas, De Vis, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N.S. Wales, ix. 1884, p. 694. 



11. R. nova:-(,i(iiir'a; = Aeviotvceiitris 7to'ta-(jvri,f(f^, Ramsay A: 



Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2) i. 1886, p.. 13. 

 Strickland River, ISTew Guinea. 



12. A', ruhrostriatus; = JVaiun'ocetUris nibiostriatus, Ramsay & 



Osilbv, I.e. p. 14. Strickland River, New Guinea. 



13. R. loriw; = Aristeus loria-, Perugia, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) 



xiv. 1894, p. 549. 



14. R. tatei; - N em.atoceniris tatui, Zietz, Rep. Horn Exped. 



Centr. Austr. Zool. p. 178, f. 2, 1896. Finke River, 

 South Australia. 



15. R. tvinnackei; = JVeinaiocentris wirmeck'-i, Zietz, I.e. p. 179, 



f. 3. Finke River, South Australia. 



16. Aida mornata, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr. p. 10, 1875. 



Gulf of Carpentaria. 



17. Melaaokenia nigrans; = Atherina niyraiis, Richardson, Ann. 



& Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. 1843, p. 180. Rivers of North 

 Australia. As before remarked ip. 131) the same species 

 may range nearly as far southward as Sydne}-, but 

 much confusion exists as to the members of this genus. 

 Dr. Giinther apparently is content to consider the four 

 species identical, but I think that any such conclusion, 

 based on the small material available to him, is hasty, and 

 that judging by analogy with the allied genus Hhomha- 

 tractus, the distribution of which is also wide but the 

 species of wMch are known to be numerous, it is unwise 

 to unite in one species all the black-banded forms from 

 widely separated parts of the continent. 



18. M. spleiiiiida; = N'miatoceutris' splmaiida, Peters, Monatsb. 



Ak. W^iss. Berlin, 1866, p. 516. Fitzroy River, Queensland. 



