AUSTRALIAN (lOKlin.l-; — McCDLLOClI AND OOII-HY. 257 



JTahltf!. — An account of the intoi'osting liabits of tliis species is given 

 bv one of ns in tlio Proceedings of the lioyal Society of Queensland, xxiii., 

 p". 26. 



Locs. — Port Jackson ; Macleay Museum, cotypos of O. crintntus, Mac- 

 leay. Fourteen otlier specimens, 47-108 mm. long are in the Austialian 

 Museum from Port Jackson, Port Hunter, Port Macquarie, and tlie iiich- 

 mond River estuaiy, New South Wales ; Caloundra, Queensland. 



Genus OxYUiticuTiiYS, Vdeel-er. 

 Oxi/iirichflu/s (Bleeker), Weber, " Siboga" E.xped., Ivii., 1913, p. 475. 



a. No orbital tentacle or nuchal crest pajniensis. 



aa. An orbital tentacle and a nuchal crest coniutus. 



OxYURicimiYS I'APDENSis, Cuvier Sf Valenciennes. 



Gohins papuoisis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, p. 

 106. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 49. 



This species has been recorded from Australia hj Giinther. 



OXYURICHTHYS CORNDTUS, McCullnrh, cj" Waite. 



O.njnriclithys conndvs, McCulloch & Waite, Rec. S.Austr. Mus., i. 1, 1918, 

 p. 80, pi. viii., fig. 2. 



Loc. — Cairns, Queensland. 



(Gor-ius) EREMius, Zlefz. 



Gobius ei-emiHs, Zietz, Rept. Horn. Exped., ii., 1896, p. 180, pi. xvi., fig. 5. 

 Id., McCulloch, Rec. Austr. Mus., xi. 7, 1917, p. 183, pi. xxxi., fig. 1. 



Hah. — Fresh water, Central Australia. 



Subfamily Eleotrinae. 



Base of the pectoral fin not unusually muscular or mobile. Eyes not 

 erectile. Ventral fins separate. 



Provisional key to the Australian genex'a known to the authors. 



a. Ventral i-ays i/4. 



h. Body elongate, scales minute ; dorsal rays about vi/29. Ptereleotris. 



lb. Body short, scales large; dorsal rays about vi/9-10 Eviota. 



aa. Ventral rays i/5. 

 c. Scales small, more than 50 in a longitudinal row. 



d. Sides of head naked Valenciennea. 



del. Sides of head scaly. 

 e. Preoperculum without a spine at the angle. 

 /. Body scales cycloid ; jaws with large canines Odonteleotris. 



