AUSTRALIAN (!OBIII>^ McCULLOCH AND OGILHY. 199 



Loes. — Cairns, North Queensland. Cooktowu, North Queensland ; 

 coll. E. A. C. Olive. Paira Creek, Cape York ; coll. Hedley and 

 McCnlloch, October, 1907. Melville Island, Nortlieru Australia. 



In addition to these localities the species has been recognised from 

 Keppel Bay (Carman) ; Cardwell (Gilnther) ; Burdekin and Mary Rivers 

 (Macleay; ; Cape York (Macleay) ; Norman River (Castelnau) ; Port 

 Darwin (Macleay and Kent). Tenison Woods'^ intimates that the 

 species occurs in the Richmond River, New South Wales, but this is 

 doubtless incorrect. 



BoLEOPHTHALMUS, Cuvier cV Valennennes. 



Boleojthfhalmiis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, p. 198 

 (GohluA boddaerti, Pallas). Id., Giinther, Bi^it. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 

 1861, p. 101. Id., Daj^ Fish. India, 1876, p. 304. Id., Jordan & 

 Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxiv., 1901, p. 47. 



Form moderately elongate, subcylindrical anteriorly, compressed, 

 posteriorly. Body covered with small or rather large scales, which 

 become rudimentary anteriorly, and are obsolete on the head. Mouth of 

 moderate size, a little oblique, the upper jaw overlapping the lower. 

 Eyes prominent, placed high in the head, close together; lower eyelid 

 well developed. Teeth uniserial in the premaxillaries, some of the 

 anterior ones lai'ge and subulate, the others becoming abruptly smaller ; 

 mandibular teeth almost horizontal, flattened and usually notched at their 

 tips ; they are largest anteriorly and arranged in a row which does not 

 curve inward posteriorly ; a large inner canine on each side of the man- 

 dibular symphysis. Tongue thick and rounded, adnate to the floor of the 

 mouth. Gill-opening lateral, separated by a broad isthmus. Dorsal tins, 

 separate, the first high, with about five spines. Second dorsal long, with 

 25-28 rays ; anal similar to the second dorsal. Pectorals with a scaly, 

 muscular base. Ventrals completely united. 



BOLEOPHTHALMUS CAEUULEOMACULATUS, AIcC idlorh ^' Waite. 



BoleophthahiiKs cnerideoinnrulntns, McCnlloch & Waite, Rec. S. Austr. 

 Mus., i. 1, 1918, p. 79, pi. viii., fig. 1. 



Loc. — Adelaide River, Northern Tei-ritory. 



Genus ScARTELAOS, Siraiiisvii. 



Sc((rtehio^!, Swainson, Nat. Hist. ClassiL Fish., ii., 1839, p. 279 (Gobi us 

 viridis, Buchanan). 



Fwlenps, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, p. 271 (lU,hoid,thahi,H^ 

 aiiriipatoriitit, Richardson). 



3 Tenison Woods— Fish and Fisheries N.S.Wales, 1882, p. 27. 



