ATSTKALIAN (iOIillli-T: McCrt,I,0('ll A\l> ()(!ir,l!Y. 249 



First dorsal orit^inating over tlie anterior lialf of the pectorals ; tlie 

 four anterior spines are soniewliat filanientoiis, bat reach only as far as 

 the second ray wlien adpressed ; tlio nienibi-ane from the last does not 

 reach the second dorsal. Dorsal rays subequal in length, the margin of 

 the fin a little rounded. Anal originating and terminating a little behind 

 the second dorsal, its rays increasing gradually in length backwards. 

 Pectoral broadly rounded, its middle rays not quite reaching the vertical 

 of the anterior dorsal ray ; no free upper rays. Ventials large, almost 

 reaching to the vent, and a little loTiger tlian the pectoral, the basal 

 membrane well developed. Caudal rounded. 



Colonr-markinr/. — Light coloured in alcohol, each scale of the back 

 and sides with an inframarginal dark brown angular mark. About seven 

 rather indefinite bands across the back, between the nape and the caudal 

 fin, and there is a median row of five dark spots between the pectoral and 

 the hypural joint. Upper surface of the head and nape spotted and 

 vermicnlated with bi'own ; an indistinct violaceous band extends downward 

 from the eye to the angle of the mouth, and some indistinct bars on the 

 cheeks terminate in two darker stripes on the bases of the pectorals. Fins 

 hyaline ; first dorsal with a longitudinal row of grey spots near the base, 

 the remainder dusky ; the anterior spine annulated with darker spots. 

 Second dorsal with many oblique rows of grey spots, the anterior ray with 

 darker annulations, and the fin has a broad lighter margin. Anal with a 

 dusky border, and some dark spots between tlie hinder rays. Caudal 

 with some light grey spots ; pectoi'als and ventrals plain, the latter 

 somewhat dusky. 



Described and figured from an example 66 mm. long, from the typical 

 locality. 



This species is very similar in all its structural details to B. nebu- 

 losus, bat differs in its colour-marking, and in having a much smaller eye. 

 This is equal to the length of the snout in B. leftivichi, but is much longer 

 than it in specimens of B. nehalosus of the same size as the example 

 described above. 



Loc. — Great Sandy Strait, Queensland, 



(GOBIDS) NEOPHYTDS, Onnther. 



Gobius neophytns, Gunther, Fische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 174, pi. cviii., fig. e. 

 Bhinpgobius neophytus, Jordan & Scale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 



1906, p. 400, pi. xxxvii., fig. 2. Id., McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.Wales, xxxvi., 1911, p. 423. 



Loc. — Murray Island, Torres Strait. 



(GoBins) LATERALIS, Macleiiy. 



var. oiiLiQUUS, var. nov. 



(Plate xxxiv., fig. 4.) 



Gobius lateralis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 602. 

 Bhhioqoliins lateral Is, McCulloch and Waite, Rec. S.Austr. Mus., i. 1, 

 1918, p. 48, pi. ii., fig. 3. 



