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considerably, and some are quite as deep as the typical form. 

 The position of the ventrals is also variable, being sometimes 

 before the middle of the dorsal, and sometimes behind that point. 

 The accompanying figure represents a Murray Island specimen. 



Hngssf* 



Fig. 55. 



Ogilby has pointed out that his types of Harengula stereol&pis 

 are the specimens which Alley ne and Macleay 1 identified as 

 Spratelloides delicatulus, Bennett. The latter species is recorded 

 from Australia by Gunther, 2 who examined specimens which 

 were collected by Macgillivray, possibly in the neighbourhood of 

 Torres Strait. I also have some very young examples from 

 Murray Island which are probably 8. delicatulus, so that 

 although the specimens of Harengula( = Sardinellcb)' are the 

 only herrings now in the Macleay Museum bearing Alleyne and 

 Macleay's label, it is probable that those authors had specimens 

 of both Harengula and Spratelloides, and their remarks really 

 refer to the latter. 



Family ATHERINID^E. 



Craterocephalus stercus muscarum, Gunther 



Atherina stercus muscarum, Gunther, Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist., (3), 

 xx., 1867, p. 64. 



Craterocephalus maculatus (Macleay), McCulloch, Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Q'land, xxiv., 1912, p. 52, pi, i., fig. 2. 



Mr. Ogilby having suggested the identity of C. maculatus and 

 Atherina stercus muscarum, I forwarded a specimen of the 



1 Alleyne and Macleay — Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i., 1877, p. 350. 



2 Gunther— Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish.,vii., 1868, p. 4(54. 



3 Fide Jordan and Richardson — Check-list Fish. Phillipine Is. (Manila 



Bur. Sci., No. 1, 1910. p. 6). 



