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jaws, small, cardiform, inner mandibular largest; diamond shaped 

 patch on vomer ; small band on each palatine ; ectopterygoids, entop- 

 terygoids and tongue each with small ovate patch. Lower preopercle 

 edge serrulate, angle widely membranaceous and without armature. 

 Opercle without spine. Gill rakers stout. Branchiostegals 6. 

 Scales small, adherent, ciliated, with very fine concentric striae and 

 broad rough inf ramarginal band. Head, nape, and breast with scales 

 much smaller than on body. Lateral line curved anteriorly. Dorsal 

 with 4 spines and 16 to 18 rays. Anal with 3 spines and 26 to 30 

 rays. Caudal deeply emarginate. Pectoral short. Ventral rather 

 small. 



LEPTOBRAMA MULLERI Steindachner 



Leptobrama mulleri Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol, 78, pt. 



1, 1878 (1879), p. 388. Townsville, Cleveland's Bay, Queensland; Denk- 



schr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. Kl., vol. 41, pt. 1, 1879, pi. 3, figs. 



l-lc— Klunzingbb, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 



381 (Queensland). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 88, 



pt. 1, 1883, p. 1107 (note). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 2, Dec. 



10, 1913, p. 64, pis. 18-19 (Keppel Bay, Moreton Bay, types of Neopemph- 



eris ramsayi Maclf:ay and If. pectoraUs Ramsay and Ogilby). — Fovpxeb, 



Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 191 (on Ogilby). 

 Neopempheris ramsayi Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 



1881, p. 517, pi. 14. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 

 Neopempheris pectoraUs Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 



Wales, vol. 2, ser. 2, 1887 (1888), p. 563. About 30 miles up Aird River, 



New Guinea. 



Depth 24/5 to 31/3; head 4:% to 41/2, width 1% to 2. Snout 41/3 

 to 5jV in head; eye 3% to 414, greater than snout; maxillary iy2 

 to 1% in head, expansion 214 in eye ; interorbital 3% to 4i^ in head, 

 strongly convex. Gill rakers 3 or 4 + 6 or 7, also 1 or 2 rudiments 

 above and below. 



Scales To to 77 in lateral line, 10 to 12 above, 12 or 13 below. D. 

 IV, 16 to 18, second ray I14 in head; A. Ill, 26 to 30, first ray ll^; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 214; pectoral II/5; ventral 2; caudal 

 3% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Silvery, back steel blue, line of demarcation well defined. Fins 

 dusky, end of dorsal lobe with or without black or dark chestnut 

 brown blotch. Length 300 mm. (Ogilby.) 



New Guinea, Queensland. 



Family PRL4CANTHIDAE 



Body oblong, ovoid, well compressed. Head moderate or large, 

 deep. Snout short. Eye usually very large, nearly half length of 

 head. Mouth cleft nearly vertical, large, lower jaw conspicuous. 

 Maxillary exposed, not entirely slipping below very narrow^ preorb- 

 ital. Teeth in jaws and on vomer villiform, none on palate. Nos- 



