274 RECORDS OP THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Genus Philypnopon, JUeel-er. 



Philypnodon, Bleeker, Arch. Noerl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 301 (Eleotria 

 nndiceps^ Castelnau). hi., Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v. 5, 1904, p. 

 284. 



Gymnobufis, Bleeker, Ibid., p. 304 (Eleotris gymnocephal/is, Steindachner). 



Ophiorrhinus, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.TVale.s, xxi., 1897, p. 745 

 (Eleotris grandiceps, Krefft). 



Philypnodon nudiceps, Gastelmui. 



Eleotris (Philypmis) nndiceps, Castlenau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., i., 1872, 

 p. 126. 



Fhilypnodon nndiceps, Bleeker, Arch. Nt'erl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 301. 



Eleotris nudiceps, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7), iv., 1880, p. 53. Id., 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 619. 



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



748. 



Loc. — Lower Yarra River, Victoria (Castelnau). 



Philypnodon gkandiceps, Krefft. 



Eleotris grandiceps, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 183. 7(7., Giinther, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, p. 62. Id., Macleay, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 618. 



Eleotris gymnocephalns, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wein, liii., 1866, 



p. 453, pi. ii., fig. 3. Id., Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (3), xx., 



1867, p. 62. 

 Gyinnohutis gymnocephalns, Bleeker, Arch. Nt'erl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 



304. Id., Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, pp. 753, 



757. 

 Ophiorrhinus grandiceps, Ogilby, Loc. cit., p. 746. 

 Ophiorrhinus angustifrous, Ogilb}^ Loc. cit., xxii., 1898, p. 793. 



Philypnodon gra7uliceps,W fiiie, Rec. Austr. Mus., v. 1904, p. 285, pl.xxxvi. 

 fig. 2 (synonymy). 



Hah. — New South Wales. 



Genus Ophiocaka, dill. 



Ophiocara, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, p. 270 (Eleotris 

 ophiocephalus, Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Body robust, compressed, the head large and broad. Scales large, 

 mostly ctenoid on the body and cycloid on the head ; there are 28-38 

 between the axil and the hypuial joint, and they extend foiward on the 

 upper surface of tlie head to bof(H-o the |)osterior noHtrils, and conipk>tely 

 cover the clieeks and opercles. Mncigerous canals of the liead almost 



