ATSTKAMAN i;oi;i I H.K — .McCll.l.oCIl ANh (MIII.KV. ll)7 



Lh'iitifi/. — The sjji'ciL's lit'i'c (k'scrihi'd and lifjinrd is tliu (•onimoiiest 

 Aiistraliau species i)f rcridji/itlnihinii^, ami lias been geiiei'ally identified as 

 P. li-aelreuferi, Pallas. It appears probable, however, that several species 

 liave been united under that name, the limits and variatit)ns of which do 

 not appear to have been satisl'actorily determined, so we are not sure that 

 our specimens are correctly identified \vi(li Pallas's species. They are 

 apparently referable to the variety urtjindiUueatas, Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes. 



Loc:?. — We liave examined specimens having the same characters as 

 those described above fi'om the Following localities. Cape Bedfoi'd, 

 Queensland ; coll. C. Hedley & E. A. Briggs, August, IDIH. Cooktown, 

 Queensland ; coll. McCulloch, June, 1918. Sunday Island, King Sound, 

 North-western Australia ; coll. Di*. H. Basedow. India ; Dr. Francis 

 Day's collection. Samoa ; coll. Prof. D. S. Jordan. Bougainville Island, 

 Solomon Group ; coll. Count Moruer. 



PKKioi'iiriiAi.MODox, Tlleel-er. 



reriophtluxhuoduH, Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sc. Nat., ix., 1874, p. o26 (Gohins 

 scJdosseri, Pallas). 



This geuus oulj- differs from PeriDphthiihinia in having larger scales 

 on the head and body, and in its dentition. There are about fifty rows of 

 scales between the pectoral base and the hypural joint, and the mandibular 

 teeth are in two rows, the outer ones being canines and the inner smaller. 



Distribatiuii. — Bay of Bengal to Northern Australia and the Western 

 Pacific Ocean. 



Pkuioi'iitiialmodox bakhsarus, Liiine. 



(Plate xxxi., fig. 2.) 



Gohiiis harharuH^ Linnc, Syst. Nat. (12th ed.), 1766, p. 450. Id., Bonna- 

 terre, Encycl. Meth., Ichth., 1788, p. 63, pi. xxxv., fig. 137. 



Gobius schlosseri, Pallas, Spicil. Zool., viii., 1770, p. 1, pi. i., figs. 1-4. 



Periophthaliiius schlosseri, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 

 1837, p. 192. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 100. 

 Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 304, pi. Ixvi., fig. 4 (vide synonymy). 



PeriopJUhaliiias schlusseri, Gihather, Challenger Rept., Zool., i., 1880, p. 33. 

 It?., Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix., 1903, p. 235. 



Periophthaliitus australis, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Aust. (Vict. Offic. Rec. 

 Philad. Exhib.), 1875, p. 22. Id., Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1877, p. 334, pi. xi., tig. 3. Id., Castelnau, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, iii., 1878, p. 48. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 614, and viii., 1883, p. 206. Id., Kent, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., vi., 1889, p. 240. 



D. iv/13 ; A. 12 ; P. 16 ; V. i/5 ; C. 15. Depth 43 in the length to the 

 hypural joint ; head 3*1 in the same. Ej-e 6-2 in the head. First dorsal 

 spine 2"1, eleventh dorsal ray 2, tenth anal ray 3"1 in the head. 



