94 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



FAMiLiT BLENNTIP.E. 



Genus NOTOGKAPTUS, Giiiither. 



NOTOGRAPTUS GUTTATUS, CUintlier. 



(Plate XXIX.) 



Notogruiitus guUatus, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx, 1867, p. 64. Id., Macleay, 

 Proo. Limi. Soe. N. S. Wales, ii, 1878, p. 359, and vi, 1881, p. 30. Id., Kluuzinger, 

 Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx, i, 1879, p. 393. 



Bhinchardia miiculata, Castelnan, Res. Fish. Austr. (Vict. Offic. Rec. Philad. Exhib.), 1875, 

 p. 47. Id., Maoleay, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, vi, 1881, p. 272. Id., Ogilby, Mem. 

 Qld. Mus., i, 1912, p. 216. 



D. l.xii/1 : A. xx.wii /2 ; V. 1 ; P. 19 ; C. 10. The length from the snout to 

 the vent is 1-1 in tlie distance between the vent and the hypnral joint. The head 

 is 2-5 in its distance from the vent. Depth at the vent about 2-1 in the head ; 

 orbit 5 in the same. Snout 1-5 in the orbit and greater than tlie interoi-bital 

 width, which is 2-7 in the orbit. Pectoral 2-2, caudal 1-5 in the head. Ventral 

 ray almost equal to the orbit iu length. Posterior dorsal spine 3-2, and posterior 

 anal spine nearly 4 in the head. 



Bod}' anguilliform, somewhat compressed, and covered with minute 

 imbricate scales which extend forward to behind the pectorals and ventrals ; the 

 breast and the back above thi^ lateral line are naked. Head subcylindrical, naked, 

 with series of pores surrounding the eye, above the opereles, across the nape, and 

 on the mandibles. .Snout obtuse ; anterior nostril in a short tube. Mouth nearly 

 horizontal, the maxilla produced backward well beyond the eye; its posterior 

 jKirtion is ratiier nari'ow, rounded, and exposed; mandible shorter than the upper 

 jaw, with a small mental barbel. A broad band of granular teeth on each ramus 

 of the jaws, which beconies narrower as it extends backward ; the symphyses are 

 naked ; a broad band of similar teeth on each palatine, vomer toothless. Tongue 

 slender, largely free. Kye large, its antei'ior margin free from the orbital 

 mi'inbi'anes. ()])ereles uiiar'med, the i)rcopercular margin hidden ))eiieath the 

 skin; subopereulum witli oblique ridges. Gill-opening wide, lateral, the mem- 

 branes bi'oadly attached to the isthmus. Lateral line extending obliquely upward 

 from the open-ulnm to neai' the back, whence it I'uns backwai'd to the base of 

 the foui'th last dorsiil spim'; it is Foi'med of a continuous sei'ies of enlarged 

 tubules. 



Doi'sal fin originating above the c-rid of tlie head ; tlie spines of the gi'eater 

 portion are slendei' with flexible tips, bill tiny ln'cDnn' thickcu- posteriorly and 

 are acutely pointed; they increase gradually in Irngth to the last; the single ray 

 is branched and longer than the spines, and is united with the caudal. Anal 

 .similar in form to the dorsal, commencing below the twenty-eighth spiiu> of 

 that fin; its .spines are all stroiig and acute, and increase in length to the last; 



