5B RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN Ml'SEUM. 



Colours.- — Brown aljove, lighter beiieatli. Hinder part of liead, 

 the body and the under surface, from between the peetoi'als 

 backwards, ornamented witli fairly uniform black spots. The 

 ilorsals, anal and caudal similai-ly marked : three series of spots 

 <tn the ventrals tend to form transverse bars. One example — a 

 male — 620 mm. in length. 



Loc. Fremantle. 



Elops saurus, Limueiis. 

 Elops saurus, Linnseus, 8yst. Nat., ed. xii., 1766, p. 5 IS. 

 Loc. — ^Murray River, near Mandurah. 



Clupaxodon neopilchardus, Steindachupr. 



i'Anpea neopilcliardns, Steindachner, Denk. K. Akad. \\'iss. 

 Wien, xli., 1879, p. 12. 



Loc. — Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Gymxothorax puxctatofasciatus, Jileeker. 



<Tt/,/inofhorax jiunctafofasciatus, Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. 

 i., 1863, p. 167. 

 Loc. — Three examples referred to this East Indian species 

 were ti-awled between Fremantle and Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Trachinocepiialus myops, Forster. 



Snlmo myops, Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, >Syst. Tclith., 

 1801, p. 421. 

 Luc. — Trawled between Houtman's Abrolhos and the main- 

 land of Western Australia. 



.Saurida tumbil, Bloch. 

 Salvio tnmhil, Bloch, Ichty., xii., 1795, p. 100, pi. ccccxxx. 

 Loc. — Trawled off Fremantle. 



►SyXODUS SAOENEUS, sp. liOl\ 



(Plate viii., fig. 1.) 



D. 12 ; A. 15 V. 8 ; P. 13 : L. 1. 52 ; L. tr. 4/7 



Length of head 3-66 : height of body 7*0 in the total length. 

 Diameter of eye 7-8 ; and length of snout 4-8 in that of the head, 

 [nterocular space equal to the orbital diameter. The head is 

 subquadrangular in section, a long shallow groove above, 

 ♦ 'xtends from the tip of the snout to the occipital region. Snout 



