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Ide)itifij a)>d Si/noiiijniy. — We have compared tliese RpecimeiiR with 

 an example of 7). (Otiholneiixig from the Aiidjiniaii iHlaiids, wliich was 

 identified by Dr. Day, and find no dilTerence between tliem ; it must be 

 noted, however, tliat Day was not certain that his specimens were correctly 

 identified. We have examined tlie cotypes of J'JIcafris hufjirmtda, De Vis, 

 which are similar to the specimens described above. 



Ajfinitics. — 7>. amboinoiftis differs fi-oiri 11. hiilin, witli an Indian 

 specimen of which we have compaied It, in having a sliorter maxilla, and 

 in having- the outer row of teeth in each jaw enlarged. 



Locs. — We have examined specimens fiom the following localities. — 

 Brisbane River, Queensland. Strickland Rivei-, Papua. Ugi, Solomon 

 Islands. 



Genus Asterropterix, liiipjK'U. 



Asterropterix, Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 138 

 (A. semipanciatas, Riippell). Id., Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. 

 Fish. Comm., xxiii. i., 1905, p. 480. 



Brachyeleotris, Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amst. (2), viii., 1874. p. 374 (Eleotris 

 cyanostigma, Bleeker). 



Priolepis, Ehrenberg — fide Bleekei% Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 

 305. 



Asterropterix semipdnctatds, Riippell. 



Asterropterix semljmnctatus, Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische, 

 1828, p. 138, pi. xxxiv., fig. 4. Id., Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. 

 Bureau, xxv., 1906, p. 385, pi. xxxvi., fig. 1. 



Eleotris cyanostigma, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., viii., 1855, p. 452. 

 Id., De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 693. Id., 

 Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 753. 



Eleotriodes cyanostigma, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., xv., 1858, p. 460. 



Brachyeleotris cyanostigma, Bleeker, Arch. Nt'erl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874 p 

 306. 



Eleotris semijmnctatns, Giinther, Fische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 187, pi. cxi., 

 fig. d. 



Asterropteryx cyanostigma, Snyder, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm., xxii., 1904, p. 

 536. 



Asterropteryx semipnnrtatns, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 

 xxiii. i., 1905, p. 480. Id., Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., iii., 1915, p. 

 125, pi. xxix., fig. 2. 



Locs. — This species has been recorded from Somerset, Cape York, by 

 De Vis., and from Bowen by Giinther. 



