752 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN ELEOTRIN.E, 



/Jide Lucas), who states that they are very voracious and feed on 

 "fishes as Uirge as themselves and generally of their own species." 



Writing of tliis fish, Mr. T. 8. Hall remarks {in lit.):— ''It 

 differs from Castelnau's E. nndice2JS in the proportions of the head 

 and especially in the teeth. Locality, " Yarra River at Mel- 

 l)ourne (tidal)." Further on he says, " As a boy I have often 

 cauf'ht what I imagine to be the same fish in the Barwon near 

 Geelonf' in fresh water, and have seen a similar looking fish in the 

 crater lake of Bullenmerrie, which is slightly brackish. I cannot 

 vouch for the identity of the three forms. We used to call them 

 ' bullies ' or ' liull-heads,' and regarded them as poisonous." It is 

 hardly necessary to say that the last supposition was erroneous. 



My description is founded on an examination of sixteen speci- 

 mens, ranging in size from 42 to 110 millimeters, for which I 

 have to thank Mr. J. Kershaw, of the National Museum, and Mr. 

 T. S. Hall, of the Melbourne University, the latter of whom sent 

 me no less than foux'teen fine examples. 



The type of iiudicejjs is not, so far as I know, in existence. 



In Macleay's Catalogue twenty-nine species of Eleotris are 

 included among Australian fishes, but as, since the publication of 

 the Supplement in 1884, this number has been nearly doubled 

 from various sources, I append a list of all the species which have 

 been recorded as occurring within our limits or on the opposite 

 coast of New Guinea up to the present day. As all or almost 

 all these have been described as Eleotris, I have drawn up the 

 list in alphabetical order, making no attempt at this stage to 

 segregate the sj^ecies in natural groups, and even including such 

 synonyms as mastersii and the like, so that the present list may 

 partake of the character of an index to the Australian forms. 



1. adspersa, Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, iii. 1878, 



p. 142. 



2. aporocephalus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ix. 1884, 



p. '23, =^^ planiceps (not Castelnau) Macleay, I.e. viii. 1883, 

 p. 206, 1 = po7'ocephahcs, Cuvier it Valenciennes, xii. p. 237, 

 1837. 



