AUSTRALIAN GOBlIDiE McCULLOCII AND OGILBY. 249 



First dorsal originating over the anterior half of the pectorals ; the 

 four anterior spines are somewhat filamentoas, but reach only as far as 

 the second ray when adpressed ; the membrane from the last does not 

 reach the second dorsal. Dorsal rays subequal in length, the margin of 

 the fin a little rounded. Anal originating and terminating a little behind 

 the second dorsal, its rays increasing gradually in length backwards. 

 Pectoral broadly rounded, its middle rays not quite reaching the vertical 

 of the anterior dorsal ray ; no free upper rays. Ventrals large, almost 

 reaching to the vent, and a little longer than the pectoral, the basal 

 membrane well developed. Caudal rounded. 



Golour-viarl-ing. — Light coloured in alcohol, each scale of the back 

 and sides with an inframargiual dark brown angular mark. About seven 

 rather indefinite bands across the back, between the nape and the caudal 

 fin, and there is a median row of five dark spots between the pectoral and 

 the hypural joint. Upper surface of the head and nape spotted and 

 vermiculated with brown ; an indistinct violaceous band extends downward 

 fiom the eye to the angle of the mouth, and some indistinct bars on the 

 cheeks terminate in two darker stripes on the bases of the pectorals. Fins 

 hyaline ; first dorsal with a longitudinal row of grey spots near the base, 

 the remainder dusky ; the anterior spine annulated with darker spots. 

 Second dorsal with many oblique rows of grey spots, the anterior ray with 

 darker annulations, and the fin has a broad lighter margin. Anal with a 

 dusky border, and some dark spots between the hinder rays. Caudal 

 with some light grey spots ; pectorals and ventrals plain, the latter 

 somewhat dusky. 



Described and figured from an example 66 mm. long, from the typical 

 locality. 



This species is very similar in all its structural details to B. nehu- 

 losus, but differs in its colour-marking, and in having a much smaller eye. 

 This is equal to the length of the snout in B. leftwichi, but is much longer 

 than it in specimens of 7^. nebulosiis of the same size as the example 

 described above. 



Log. — Great Sandy Strait, Queensland. 



(GORIDS) NEOPHYTUS, Gi'nitJier. 



Gohius neophytns, Giinther, Fische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 174, pi. cviii., fig. e. 

 BliinogoUus neophytus, Jordan & Scale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 



1906, p. 400, pi. xxxvii., fig. 2. Id., McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.Wales, xxxvi., 1911, p. 423. 



Log. — Murray Island, Torres Sti'ait. 



(GoBiDs) LATERALIS, Macleay. 



var. onLiQDUS, var. nov. 



(Plate xxxiv., fig. 4.) 



Qobins laferalis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 602. 

 Bhinogohius lateralis, McCulloch and Waite, Rec. S.Austr. Mus., i. 1, 

 1918, p. 48, pi. ii., fig. 3. 



