NOTHS ON SOMK AUSTIIAIJAN ATIIKI{IMI);1^;. 



By ALLAN R. McCULLOCH, 



Zoologist, Australian Museum, Sydney. 

 (Published by permission of the Trustees of the Aitstrahan 



Museum). 



Plate I. and Text Figure 1. 



Bead he fore the Royal Society of Queensland, '2i\th June, 1912. 

 (Communicated by Dr. T. Harvey Johnston). 



AtHERINA MUGILOIDES, 7107)1. TIOV. 



(Text Figure 1.) 



Atherinichtkys punctatus, De Yis, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. 

 Wales, IX., 1885, p. 869 (not Atherina pinictatu, Bennett, 

 1832). 



D.V-VI, 1/7-8 ; A.I/9-10 ; y.I/5 ; P. 12-13 : C. 17 ; L. Lat. 

 33i-34; L. Tr. 6. 



Tkxt F[<inRE 1. 



Body stout, de]jth at ventrals 5i-5| in lengtli from 

 snout to liypural ; head 4 in the same. Snout 1 J-H in the 

 eye, which is 2i-2f in the head, and e(|iial to or wider 

 than the interorbital space. Maxillary not expanded 

 posteriorly, reaching to below the margin or anterior fourth 

 of the eye. Teeth minute, slender, acute, apparently 

 arranged in two series in the upper ja^ and one in the 

 lower ; confined to the front and anterior ])arts of the sides 

 of the jaws, ^'omer, palatines and tongue toothless. 

 Gill-rakers long and slender. 



