284 KECnliltS OK THE ALSIKALIAN MISKI M. 



Genus Gohiomori'hds, '.'///. 



Gol'ioiiiiirii/nii!, (Jill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., Ib6;i, p. 270 (Eleotris 

 gohiiiiiles, Cnvier & Valeucieiuies). 



Mnhjoit, Ogilby, Pi'dc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 7-iO (Elentrin 

 rori'i, Krefft). 



Body Hnbcylindrical anteriorly, compressed posteriorly ; caudal 

 peduncle abont half as long as broad. Scales of moderate size, mostly 

 ctenoid but becoming cycloid anteriorly and on the abdomen ; they extend 

 forward to between the posterior orbital margins. Head about as brt)ad 

 as deep, snout obtusely conical ; mandible piojecting. Operculum covered 

 with small scales; cheeks with somewhat rudimentary scales which are 

 most plentiful on the postorbital portions. Lines of minute mucigerons 

 papillffi extend across the cheeks and opercles, around the preopercular 

 margin, and from each side of the snout to above the e3'e. A broad band 

 of villiform teeth in each jaw ; no enlarged outer row. Tongue free and 

 rounded aiiterioily. Gill-openings extending forward below, separated 

 by a leather broad isthmus; exposed edge of the shoulder-girdle forming a 

 smootli ridge, with a pit at its lower angle. Pseudobranchia' present; 

 gill-rakers short and thick, about nine on the lower limb of the first arch. 

 First doi-sal i-ounded, with six to seven spines ; second dorsal short, 

 with nine to eleven rays. Pectoi*al and caudal rounded. Ventrals i/5, 

 completely separated. 



Siinoiii/inii. — A compai'ison of the genotypes <r. i/oblniih'x and M. coxil 

 shows that they are similar in all the above characters. Waite-'^' has 

 united Mnlijim with Kreftitif, but it is distinguished from that genus in 

 having the interorbital space naked instead of scaly. 



Jordan and Evermaun'-'i have united their genus (^iiinqiiHinx with 

 (liihloiiniiiiliiis, but it differs in the chai-acter of its dentilion. It has an 

 enlarged outer row of teeth in each jaw, and thei-e is a subcaniniform 

 tooth on each side of the mandible ; in (ioli'iuinur^iliiis the teeth ai'e subequal 

 in size. 



Uiih. — Fresh waters and estuaries of New Zealand and New South 

 Walt's, 



GoBiOMORPHDS coxii, Krefft. 



Ehntn's rii.iil, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc, l!?*)^, p. 18.S. Iii., Giinther, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (M), xx., 1867, p. (32. Li, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.'^Vales, v., 1881, p. 618. 



Ehiilr'iK ricliiirdiinini, Steiudachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wieii, liii., I8t)6, p. 

 455, pi. ii., tig. 4. 



Elcotris hKislerxil, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. (>22. 



Miil'jihi co.rii, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 741. 



KreftiKg riLili, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mns., v. 5, 1904, p. 288, pi. xxxvi., tig. 1. 



•-'• Waite— Keo. Austr. Mus., v. 5, 1904, p. 281. 



-' Jurdaii & Everiuann — Bull. U. S. Fish. Coium., xxiii. i., lyoo, p. 483. 



