Sl'DDlES IN AUSTRALIAN FISHES McCDLLOCH. 171 



Scales of the body with ciliated edges, those of the head 

 cycloid ; they exteud forward to the occiput above, and cover 

 the cheeks and opercles. Lateral line following the curve 

 of the back from the suprascapular to the hypural, and 

 consisting of a simple tube on each scale. 



Relative positions of the fins slightly variable, due to 

 changes of the form of the body with growth. First dorsal 

 spine small, inserted a little behind the vertical of the base 

 of the pectorals ; second spine long and strong. Second 

 dorsal fin with a strong spine. Yeutrals inserted in advance 

 of the pectorals, each with a strong spine. Anal with two 

 spines, the first veiy small ; its origin and termination are 

 behind the same points of the second dorsal. 



Colour. — After long preservation, uniform, the membrane 

 of the outer half of the first dorsal blackish; the membrane 

 between the ventral rays is also dark. 



Described from three specimens, 77-109 mm. long, from the 

 snout to the hypural ; the largest is figured. They do not 

 differ from Richardson's description of Apogon a-prion, and 

 also agree with that of GuIIiveria ramsayi, Macleay^ ; they 

 also scarcely differ from Castelnau's diagnosis of Galliveria 

 fusca, so I regard these three as synonymous. Gu. fasciata, 

 Castelnau, which was taken with Gu. fusca, only differs from 

 that species in being rather more elongate, in having the 

 preopeiculum somewhat seriated, and in its colour marking; 

 all these characters are variable in the allied GJ. giUii, 

 however, so I have no hesitation in regarding Gu. fasciata as 

 another sj-nonym of GJ. apriou. 



Loc. — Collect's Creek, fifty miles inland from Port Darwin, 

 North Australia. 



Glossamia gillii, Steindachner. 



(PI. xxxi., fig. 4.) 



Apogonichthys gilUi, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 Iv. i., 1867, p. 11, pi. i., fig. 1. IJ., Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 347, and viii., 1883, p. 200. 



■' The type of Gu. ramsayi is apparently lost. I am unable to find 

 it iu either the Macleay Museum or the Australian Museum collections. 



