270 THE FISHES OF NEW GUINEA, 



343. Mugil PAPILLOSUS. n. sp. 



D. 4. 1/7. A. 3/9. L. lat. 38. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length ; the 

 head is depressed, the body compressed, and the back rather more 

 convex than the belly. The eyes are large, near the snout, nearly 

 two diameters apart, and without adipose membrane. The snout 

 is rounded in front and above. The upper lip is thick in the 

 middle where it fits into a broad emargination of the head, and 

 has along its lower edge a groove filled with verrucose papillae as 

 shown in the accompanying woodcut. The lower jaw is very 

 obtusely angled at the symphysis, but is acutely angled at the 

 sides ; no open space on the chin. The first spine of the anal fin 

 is very short ; the caudal is emarginate. Colour silvery, darker 

 along the back ; a black spot above the root of the pectoral fin. 

 " Nyiari " of the natives. 



Normanby Island. Fresh water. 



344. Aeschrichthys Goldiei. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 8, p. 2. 

 Goldie River. Fresh water. 



FISTULARID^E. 



345. FlSTULARIA SERRATA. ClU\ 



Gunth. Cat. 3, p. 533. Macl. Cat., Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. 

 Wales, vol. 6, p. 49. Hood Bay. 





