274 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Genus Puii-YPN((iiON, Bleeher. 



Philypnodoii, Bleeker, Arch. Nt'erl. Sci. Nat., i.\., lS7-i, p. 801 (Elenhis 

 mtdireps, Castelnau). /«/., Waite, Rec. Austr. Mas., v. 5, 1904, j). 



284. 



Gymnohutis, Bleeker, Ihhl., p. 804 (Eleotria rfi/niiw>'iif(<ihis, Steindacliiiei-). 



Ophiorrhinus, O^ilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 745 

 (Eleotn's grtnidlccpf, Krefft). 



PiiiLYPN(U»oN NUDiCEPs, Costehian. 



Elentris (rhiliipnus) mtdireps, Castlenau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., i., 1872, 

 p. 126. 



rhilypnodon nndiceps, Bleekei', Arch. Ncerl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 301. 



Fjleiilris vudicepsi, Sanvage, Bull. Soc. Pliilom. (7), iv., 1880, p. 53. 7J., 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 619. 



Ophiorrhiiins vndlreps, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 

 748. 



Loc. — Lower Yarra River, Victoria (Castelnau). 



PlIILYPNODON GI.'ANDICKI'S, Krefft. 



Eleotn's graudiceps, KrefFfc, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 183. Jd., Giinther, 

 Ann. Majr. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, p. 62. Id., Macleay, Pioc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 618. 



Eleotris gymnocephahts, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wein, liii., 1866, 

 p. 453, pi. ii., fig. 3. Id., Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (3), xx., 

 1867, p. 62. 



Oymnohuth gyinvorepJudiit^, Bleeker, Arch. Ni'erl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 

 304. Id., Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, pp. 758, 

 757. 



Ophiorrhinus grandiceps, Ogilby, Loc. cit., p. 746. 



Oidiiorrlitnus angustifro)t><, Ogilby, Jjur. cit., xxii., 1898, p. 793. 



rhilyi»nid(in grandiceps, Wfilte, Rec. Austr. Mus., v. 1904, p. 285, pl.xxxvi. 

 fig. 2 (synonymy). 



ir«?y.— New South Wales. 



Genus Oi'iiiocAKA, dill. 



Ophioeara, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phiiad., 1868, p. 270 (Eleutris 

 ophincephalits, Cnvier & Valenciennes). 



Body robust, compressed, the head laige and broad. Scales large, 

 mostly ctenoid on the body and cycloid on tlie head ; there are 28-38 

 between the axil and the hypural joint, and they extend foi'ward on the 

 upper sni'face of the head to before the posterior nostrils, and completely 

 cover the cheeks and opercles. MucigerouH canals of the head almost 



