282 HECORDP OP THE AFSTRALIAX MUSETM. 



axil and the hypnral joint, and 15-16 between the anterior dorsal and 

 anal ravs. In other specimens the nnmber of anal ravs varies from 

 11-14. ' 



Si/nonyDiy. — Three examples, 45-63 mm. long, from Red Bank Creek, 

 Central Australia, and received for examination from the South Australian 

 Museum, are topotypes, and possibly cotypes of Eleofria lardfivtiv., Zietz. 

 They differ from the description of that species in having the maxilla 

 extending to or beyond the anterior ocular margin instead of nearly to it 

 as described, and the eye is more instead of less than half the interoeular 

 width; D. viii/12 ; A. 11-12; 38-39 scales between the axil and the 

 hypural joint. Others from the Finke River, Central Australia, are 

 similar, and have D. viii-ix/13 ; A. 11-12 ; 40 scales between the axil and 

 the hypural joint. These specimens are quite similar to the larger 

 example described above as 37. mognnidd. 



The specimen beautifully figured in colour by Weber from the Ana 

 Islands is very probably correctly identified as .V. moijnnnhi, but his 

 illustration shows sixteen dorsal rays, which is more than we find in any 

 of our examples. 



Lncalifleg. — We have examined nineteen specimens from the following 

 localities. Port P^ssington, Port Darwin, Catherine Mines and Yam Ci'eek 

 in the Noi'theru Territory. Euraka Creek, Walsh River, Northern 

 Queensland. Red Bank Creek and the Finke River, Central Australia. 



Didrihittioii. — North and Cential Australia. ?Aru Islands, and the 

 western and southern coasts of New Guinea (Weber). 



MOGURNDA MOGDH-NKA, liichd rilsaii . 



Subspecies adsprrsds, Castelnau. 



Eleotrlx ii(hperstis, Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, iii., 1878, p. 



142. Id, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 622. 



Id., Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 752. 

 Eleotn'a viivins, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 690. 



Id., Ogilby, Loc. cit., p. 754. 

 Eleotris coiicolor, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 692. 

 Kreftius luhpersu!^, Ogilby, Lor. cit., xxii., 1898, p. 789. Id., Waite, Rec. 

 ' Austr. Mus., v., 1904, p. 282, pi. xxv., fig. 1. Id., Ogilbv, Proc. Rov. 



Soc. Qld., xxi., 1908, p. 98. 

 Eleotrix nnxjiirndit, Bleeker, Nederl. Tijdsclir. Dierk., ii., 1865, p. 71. Id., 



Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ivi. i., 1867, p. 326. Id., 



Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, iii., 1879, p. 358. Id., 



Ogilbv, Cat. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1886, p. 36 (pai'O- i^^^ E. vuHjnnidn, 



Rich.) 

 Mnqnnida niucftinidit, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales', xxi., 1897, p. 



757. /(/"., Waite, Rec. "^Austr. Mus., v., 1904, p. 282, and Mem. N.S. 



Wales Nat. Club, ii., 1904, p. 45. 



D. vi-ix/11-14; A. 11-14; P. 15-16; V. i/5 ; C. 15. 30-35 scales 

 between the axil and the hypural joint, and 12-14 between the anterior 

 doi'sal and iiiial rays. 



