66 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



missing in the type. Anal similar to the dorsal, its terminal portion also lacking. 

 Caudal missing. Pectoral fins well developed, subequal ; the middle rays are longest, 

 and more than twice as long as the eye. Ventrals subequal, opposite each other, the 

 median rays longest and overlapping the anterior anal rays ; the hinder rays of each 

 appear to have been attached to the body by membrane, which is now torn, lea\ing 

 them free. 



Colour. — Stained green in preservative, with traces of darker markings. Dorsal 

 and anal fins with lighter margins ; pectorals dark. 



Described from one of the typical specimens lent me for examination by the 

 Director of the Queensland Museum. It is 123 mm. long without the caudal fin. 

 Ogilby's brief description was prepared from two specimens, both of which were 

 mutilated, the tails and the ends of the dorsal and anal fins being broken off. He 

 counted sixty-six dorsal and fifty-three anal rays, while the proportions he gave are 

 somewhat different from those of the specimen I have described. He counted only 

 eighty-four scales, whereas I find about ninety-seven directly below the straight 

 portion of the lateral fine. 



Loc. — Saltpans at Kimberley, North Queensland, 



Genus PHYLLICHTHYS, gen. nov. 



AlUed to Synaptura, but differing in having the ventral fins more or less united 

 by membrane, and the right ventral completely joined to the first anal ray ; vent 

 placed in front of the anal fin, but shghtly to the left of the median fine. 



Type. — Synaptura sclerolepis, Macleay. 



PHYLLICHTHYS SCLEROLEPIS, Macleay. 

 (Plate IX., fig. 2.) 

 Synaptura sderolepis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii., 1878, p. 363, pi. x., fig. 4. 



D. 84 ; A. 71 ; V. 4. L. lat. 93 ; L. tr. 30/35. Greatest depth, measured on 

 the lower surface, nearly 3 in the length from the snout to the hyjniral ; head 6-3 in 

 the same. Eye 4-6, posterior dorsal ray 1-7, and caudal fiii 1-2 in the head. 





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Text-fig 4. 

 PHYLLICHTHYS SCLEROLEPIS Macleay. Head X 2. 



Scales ctenoid above and below, extending onto the fin-rays. Head closely 

 scaly above, without cirri ; anterior third of the lower surface closely covered -with 



