FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 641 



Potamalosa richmondia Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 10, p. 589, 1922 



(no locality). — McCuixoch, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 40, 1929 



(reference). 

 Mcletta novae-hollaiidiae Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 376, 1847 



[type locality: Port Jackson (Quoy and Gaimard)]. — Castelnau, Proc. 



Zool. Acclimat. See. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 189, 1872 (Melbourne market). — 



? Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 370, 1893 (Queensland). 

 Clupea novae hollandiae Gunthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 431, 1868 



(New South Wales, Hawkesbury River). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 



South Wales, vol. 4, pt. 3, p. 378, 1880 (Hawkesbury and Nepean Rivers) ; 



vol. 6, p. 259, 1881 ( reference ) .—Ogelby, Cat. Fishes New South Wales, p. 



56, 1886.— Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 307, 1893. 

 Diplomystus novaeholJandiae Ogilbt, Edible Fishes New South Wales, p. 184, 



pi. 47, 1893. 

 Potamalosa novae hollandiae Roughley, Fishes of Australia, p. 17, 1916 (coastal 



rivers New South Wales, Victoria, South Queensland). — McCulloch, Rec. 



Australian Mus., vol. 11, pt. 7, p. 166, pi. 29, fig. 4, 1917; Fishes of New 



South Wales, ed. 2, p. 16, pi. 5, fig. 53a, 1927.— McCulloch and Whitley, 



Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 132, 1925 (Kent's Queensland record 



questioned). 

 Hyperlophus .sprateiUdes (not Ogilby) Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 



10, p. 590, 1922 (type of Meletta novae-hollandia Valenciennes). 



Depth 2% to Z%; head Z% to 41/2, width 1% to 2. Snout 3% 

 in head from snout tip; eye 2%? greater than snout or interorbital, 

 adipose lid covers last third of eye with age; maxillary reaches I/4 

 to 1/3 in eye, expansion 2% to 3% in eye, length 21/2 in head from 

 snout tip; teeth obsolete or absent; interorbital 4% to 41/5, slightly 

 elevated, level medianly; cranium and humeral region venulose. 

 Gill rakers 11+24, lanceolate, equal gill filaments, which ^2 of ^ye. 



Scales 37 to 40 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 

 more on latter; 11 or 12 transversely, 14 predorsal; 10 or 11 pre- 

 dorsal keels. Abdominal serrae 17 or 18 + 14 or 15. Scales with 

 9 to 18 basal radiating striae; 3 or 4 incomplete vertical striae or as 

 short marginals above and below; circuli as very fine parallel ver- 

 tical striae, none apical. 



D. in, 12, I or 13, i, first branched ray ly^ to 1% in total head 

 length; A. iii, 13, i, first branched ray 214 to 2%; caudal 3% to 4 

 in rest of body, deeply forked, slender lobes sharply pointed; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2i^ to 2% in total head length; pectoral 

 11^ to 11/3 ; ventral 11/2 to 14^. 



Back brown, also occiput. Sides and lower surfaces silvery white. 

 Dorsal and caudal pale brownish. Lower fins whitish. Iris silvery 

 white. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria. 



U.S.N.M. No. 47805. "Fiji Islands" [Introduced ?] Australian Museum. Length, 



180 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 47806. "Fiji Islands" [Introduced ?] Australian Museum. Length, 



166 mm., caudal ends broken. 



