244 KKCOUUS OK lUE Al'STUAMAN MUSEUM. 



tliey appear to be usually nearer forty tliaii 6fty. We liave examined a 

 photo^rapli of the type of (/. caiKhitus, Castelnau, wliicli is preserved in 

 flie Paris Museum, and are couviiiced that species also is synojiymous 

 with <1. liifrcuatiig. 



Locs. — Botany Bay and Poit Jackson. Richmond River estuary, 

 northern New South Wales. Eden, south coast of New South Wales. 

 Near the Yaiia Kivci' morith, Hohson Bay, Victoria. Goolwa, Noarlunga, 

 and near Adelaide, South Australia. 



TI(tb. — This species has so far been recognised only from New South 

 Wales and Victorian waters. Many specimens lent for e.vamination by 

 the South Austialian Museum, prove the species to be common in the 

 estuarine waters near Adelaide also. 



[GoiilDS] SEMIKUENATLS, MkcIciUJ. 



(Plate xx.xiv., fig. 2.) 



Gobius neviifrenatiis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. See. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 

 598. LI, Ogilbv, Cat. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1886, p. 35. Id., Waite, 

 Mem. N.S.Wales' Nat. Club, ii., 1904, p. 46. 



D. vi/11 ; A. 12 ; P. 17 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. About 32 scales from above 

 the base of the pectoral to the hypural joint, and about 11 between the 

 anterior dorsal and anal rays. 



De[)th almost 5 in the length to the hypural joint; head 86 in the 

 same. Eye 4(3 in the head, shorter than the snout. Inteiocular space 3 

 in the eye. Snout 38, depth of the caudal peduncle 23 in the head. 



Form and structural details almost exactly similar to those of (>. 

 hifreiinlux, but with the scales lather more regular and somewhat laiger 

 anterioily. The posterior dorsal and anal lays are a little shorter, and 

 the caudal is less produced, the median rays being only 02 longer than 

 the head. 



Colour gieen, white below. Snout and upper surface of the head 

 with numerous small dark spots, which become larger on the nape ; a 

 broad incomplete dark bar extends from below the eye, across the opercles 

 to the lower base of the pectoral, and terminates between the pectoral 

 and ventral bases; another imperfect bar is situated in the nuchal groove, 

 and ends in a dark shoulder-spot. An incomplete dark bar conunences 

 behind the pectoral and becomes confused with a row of seven or eight 

 daik blotches on the lower portion of the sides, which are correlated 

 with some irregular transverse bars on the body. Many scales on the 

 anterior parts of the sides with opalescent spots. Dorsal fins with series 

 of grey spots forming oblique rows which run forward and upward ; a 

 broad light margin to each fin. Caudal with small dark, light-edged 

 spots between the rays near the base ; rarely these coalesce to form a 

 broad bar at the extreme base. Aual and ventral dusky. 



Described and figui-ed from a specimen 113 mm. long. 



