STUniES IN ArSTI.'AI.IAX KISHKS .McOuLLOCH. 127 



Tlie specimen is bleached, aixl tliere is no trace of a dark axillary 



sfnit. 



IjtMigtli to tiie 113-pural joint 13!J mm. Head 35 j mm. Maximum 

 depth between the dorsal Hns 87 mm., but the specimen is evidently some- 

 what distorted. Orbit 10 mm., interorbit 13| mm., and first dorsal spine 

 26 mm. 



Sijno)iij))i.y. — Ogilby noted the relationship of M. steveusi and .1/. 

 dnssiwn'eri. Having ci'itically compared his hoiotype with au Indian 

 example of tiie latter species from Dr. Day's collection, I am unable to 

 find any characters to separate the two ; the differences noted by Ogilby 

 prove to be very slight and insufficient to maintain his species. The 

 deptli is 37 in steveusi and 3"8 in dussaiiileri, and there is no appreciable 

 difference in the forms of the snouts of the two. M. 'hissiuiiifn' has the 

 upper jaw ciliated as was described by Ogilby, and the mandibles of 

 the two specimens are similar. Odd scales remain on the snouts of both 

 specimens and indicate no dift'ei-ence in this character. The eye is 35 in 

 the head in steve)if<i and 38 in dussumierl, while an apparent difference in 

 the interorbital width is due to the fact that Ogilby measured the inter- 

 ocular instead of the true interorbital space. The point of the insertion 

 of the first dorsal spine is similar in the two specimens. Ogilby described 

 the maxillaries as concealed ; only a portion of one now remains which 

 does not enable one to see whether it is concealed or not, but its end may 

 well have been exposed when the mouth was closed as in M. <lussumieri. 



Ogilby included M. dnstinmieri in the synonymy of M. suboiridis, but 

 as his conclusions were based upon Day's descriptions of the typical 

 specimens of both species, which were maintained as distinct by that 

 author, further proof of their identity is necessary. The characters of 

 both have been tabulated by Weber, (loc. fit.). 



Lociditles. — The hoiotype of M. steveusi was taken at Gold Island, 

 Rockingham Bay, Queensland, and the Indian example in the Australian 

 Museum is from Madras. Stead has recorded M. diissiiiuieri from the 

 Clarence River estuary, New South Wales, but his identification was not 

 altogether satisfactory and needs verification. 



MUGIL TADOPSIS, OijiUnj. 



Brown-banded Mullet. 

 (Plate xxii., fig. 2). 

 MmjlJ tiidnpsis, Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 9, 1908, p. 27. 



D. iv, i/8 ; A. iii/9 ; P. 16 ; V. i/5 ; C. U. 29-31 scales between the 

 operculum and the hypural joint, and 12 between the back and the belly 

 before the first dorsal exclusive of the median dorsal and ventt-ai rows. 



Depth before the first dorsal fin 38 in the length to the hypural 

 joint; head 45 in the same. Eye 4 in the head, slightly shorter than its 

 distance from the premaxillary symphysis, and 17 in the interocular 

 space, which is 24 in the head. Least depth of the caudal peduncle 1-6, 

 second dorsal spine 15, and pectoral fin 12 in the head. 



