208 NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM QUEENSLAND, 



30. Mugil DOBULA. Gunth. 

 Macl. Mugil. Aust. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol, 4, p. 414. 

 Burdekin and Mary Rivers. Fresh and brackish water. 

 This fish is found in all or nearly all the rivers of New South 

 Wales, on the eastern water shed. 



31. Mugil Ramsayi. n. sp. 



D. 4. 1/8, A. 3/1. L. lat. 36, L. tr. 9-10. 



The height of the body is one-fourth, and the length of the head 

 is one-sixth of the total length. Body somewhat compressed, 

 about equally and slightly convex above and below. Head 

 convex between the eyes ; snout short, convex, obtusely pointed ; 

 lips thin, very densely and minutely ciliated j no teeth ; bony 

 tuburcles on the palate ; maxillary small, but visible along its 

 whole length, and not reaching to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye. Eyes moderate, without adipose membrane, 

 distant about one of their diameters from the snout, and more 

 than two diameters from one another ; the pracorbital is finely 

 crenulated above the maxillary. The pectoral fins are about as 

 long as the head, with a dark spot at the insertion of the spine, 

 and a pointed scale in the axil ; the ventrals are situated below the 

 middle of the pectorals ; the first dorsal above the posterior half 

 of the ventrals ; the anal commences perceptibly in advance of the 

 soft dorsal ; and the caudal is slightly emarginate. Colour silvery 

 all over, with a bluish tint on the back. Length, 8 inches. 



Burdekin River, in brackish water. 



SILURID^. 

 32. Neosilurus Hyrtlii. Steind. 

 Mac. Cat. Fishes, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 208. 

 Mary River, in fresh water. 



33. Copidoglanis tandanus. Mitchell. 

 Mac. Cat. Fishes, Proc. Linn. Soc. K S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 205. 

 Mary River, in fresh water. 

 Found also in all the rivers of the Murray system. 



