42 URCORPS OP TTIK AUSTRALIAN MUSEFM. 



Desoiibed and fi<(ure(l from a fejimle example 229 mm. wide, from 

 Murray Island. 



Variation. — A lai'fjer specimen funn St. Ci-ispin Reef, only diffei-s in 

 havinf^ tlie blue spots liorlitei' instead of darker tlmn tlie gronnci-oolonr, 

 and in liaving micM'oscopic sj)inules imbedded in the skin on some paj-ts 

 of the back wliicb can be felt witli the fingei'. A smallei- male from Port 

 Darwin has the s[)ots on the disc laigei' and blackisli witli indefinite 

 lighter margins. 



Loc*. — Port Darwin, North Australia; coll. (Jliristie & Godfrey. 

 Murray Island, Torres Stiait; coll. Hedley & McCuUoch, October, 1907. 

 St. Crispin Reef, off Port Douglas, Queensland ; coll. ]\rcCullorh. 

 June, 1919. 



Family CLUPEID^. 



Subfamily DUSSUMIERIIN^. 



Genus Sl'OLEPHORDS, Lar,'pr<h\ 



STor,EPnoi;rs robustcs, Oijiliij. 



Bine Spi'at. 



(Plate xi, fig 1.) 



Spratelloiih's rohinftii^, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxii, 1897, 



p. 64. 

 Stnlephnrii.'^ ruhnsftoi, Waite, Mem. N.S.Wales Nat. Club, No. 2, 1904, p. 



12, and Kec. Austr. Mus., vi., 190o, p. 195. hi, Offilbv, An!.. Qld. 



Mus., No. 9, 1908, p. 5. 

 i* Spratelloiiles dflirKtuJii.-^, Zeitz, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xxxii., 1908, p. 



295 (Not of Bennett). 



D. 12; A. 11; P. 13; V. 8 ; C. 17. 45 scales between the upper 

 angle of the operculum and the base of the tail ; 8-9 between the origins 

 of the dorsal and ventral fins, excluding the median series above and 

 below; 14 scales on the middle line of tlie back before the dorsal fin. 



Depth before the dorsal fin 5-1 in the length to the hypui-al joint; 

 head 'A 7 in the same. Eye equal to the length of the snout, :V5 in the 

 head. 1 nteroibital space 11 in the eye. Depth of the caudal peduncle 

 ;3-l in the head. Third dorsal ray 15, thiid anal ray 37, pectoral TO, 

 ventral 2*1, and caudal 18 in the head. 



Body moderately robust tliough laterally compre.ssed, the vential 

 surface rounded like the back and without serrated scales; ventral 

 profile more convex than that of the back. Snout obtnsel}' pointed, the 

 mandible scai'cely {)iojecting when the mouth is closed. Maxilla broad, 

 reaching to below the anterior border of the eye; jaws and palate 

 appai-ently toothless, tongue spatulate, free aiiteriorly. Nostrils close 

 together, midway between tlie eye and the end of the snout. Eye large, 

 with a well developed anterioi- and posteiioi- adipose lid. Inteidrbital 

 space flat. Upper surface of head, sides of snout, cheeks and opeiciilum 

 closely coveied with large ramose canals, which also extend over the 

 scapular region. 



