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both jaws; maxillary well prolonged; strong longitudinal ridge on 

 upper surface of head. Abdomen compressed, entirely spiny. 



D. 12, origin midway in body without caudal; A. 32, extends well 

 behind dorsal; caudal strongly forked. 



Silvery, upper parts light brown. Fins yellow. Length 175 mm. 

 (Castelnau.) 



North Australia, Queensland. 



ANCHOVIELLA AESTUARIA (Ogilby) 



Anchovia aestuaria Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, p. 4, 1911 (type 

 locality: Brisbane River, Queensland) ; Commerc. Fish. Fisher. Queensland, 

 p. 47, 1915 (Brisbane). 



Anchoviella aestuaria McCulloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, 

 pt. 2, p. 133, 1925 (reference). 



Depth 31/2 ; head 3%. Snout 4% in head, vertically rounded in 

 front extends before lower jaw space % of eye; eye 4; maxillary 

 reaches slightly beyond mandibular articulation; jaws with series of 

 minute teeth, tongue toothed; interorbital 4 in head. Lower gill 

 rakers 24, longest li/4 in eye. 



Scales 40 or 41 in medial lateral row ; 9 or 10 transversely. Scales 

 thin, easily detached. Ventral profile cultrate, rather strongly ser- 

 rated. 



D. 13 or 14, origin little behind ventral, height 1% in head ; A. 31 

 to 34, height 1% in dorsal height ; caudal peduncle depth 2% ; pectoral 

 1% ; ventral 21/3. 



Pale green above, sides and below silvery. Usually dusky shoulder 

 spot. Longer dorsal rays and caudal lobes narrowly tipped with 

 blackish. Length, 150 mm. (Ogilby). 



Queensland. 



Genus COILIA Gray 



Coilia Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 9, 1831. (Type, Coilia Jiamiltonii Gray, monotypic.) 

 Collia ScHLEGHX, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 10-15, p. 243, 1846. 



(Type, Coilia Jiamiltonii Gray.) 

 Mystus (not Gronow 17G3, Klein 1775, Scopoli 1777) Lao£:pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



vol. 5, p. 406, 1803. (Type, Mystus clupeoides 'Lac^pede=Clupea mystus 



Linnaeus, monotypic.) 

 Choetomus McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 405, 1843. (Type, 



Choetomus playfairii McCuixooh, monotypic.) 

 Leptonurus Bleekee, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Madura), vol. 22, p. 14, 1849. 



(Type, Leptonurus chrysostigma Bleeker.) 

 Demicoilia Jordan and Seale, Copeia, No. 141, p. 28, 1925. (Type, Coilia quad- 



ragesimalis Valenciennes, orthotypic.) 



Body compressed, very elongate, narrowing behind in long slender 

 tail. Mouth oblique. Maxillary more or less extended. Teeth in 

 jaws, on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue; no canines. Lower 

 gill rakers 20 to 30. Dorsal origin before that of anal. Anal rays 



