260 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MCSEDM. 



and anal fins, and in having four, instead of five ventral rays ; the first 

 character is probably variable, while it seems not unlikely that the number 

 of ventral rays was incorrectly counted b}- Bleeker. 



Loc. — Darnley Island, Torres Strait. Perhaps a pelagic form. 



Genus Eviota, Jenkins. 



Eviota, Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm., xxii., 1903, p. 501 (E. ejuphanes, 

 Jenkins). 



J//o^o&t'(t.s-, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v. ?>, 1904, p. 170 (A. vin'dis, Waite). 



Eviota vikidis, Waite 



Allorjohias viridis, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v. 3, 1904, p. 177, pi. xxiii., 

 •fig. 3. 



Eviota zotmra, Jordan & Scale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 190G, p. 

 386, fig. 75. 



Eviota viridis, McCulloch, Rec. Austr. Mus., ix. 3, 1913, p. 386. 



Loc. — Queensland coast between Port Curtis and Torres Strait 

 (McCulloch). 



Genus Valenciennea, Bleeher. 



Valenciennea, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., xi., 1856, p. 112 (Eleotris 

 strigata, Broussonet). Id., Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxiv., 1901, p. 42. 



Calleleotris, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, p. 270 (E. striyata, 

 Broussonet). 



Valenciennesia, Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2), viii., 1874, p. 372 

 — emended spelling. 



Gohio)ii()rus, Gill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xi., 1888, p. 69 (ii. taihoa, Lacep.). 

 Not Gohiouwnis, Lacepede. 



Body moderately elongate, a little compressed, covered with small, 

 ctenoid scales. Head naked, opercles unarmed ; jaws subequal, with 

 strong, spaced teeth, which are uniserial or biserial anteriorly in the lower 

 jaw, but uniserial elsewhere ; a curved canine on each side of the mandible ; 

 palate toothless. Isthmus broad. Ventral fins separate, with one spine 

 and five rays. Dorsal fins with six spines and thirteen to nineteen rays, 

 anal similar to the second dorsal. 



Nonienclatnre. — Gill (Lor. cit.) considered Lacepode's name Gohio- 

 inoriis^^ should be used for this genus, but Jordan'^, as the first revisoi", 

 applied it to I'hllijjnius, and we consider lie should be followed. 



i** Oobiomorus, Lacepode — Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii., 1800, p. 583. 

 10 Jordan— Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., v., 1883, p. 571. 



