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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.98 
  

  

  Genus 
  TAENIOMEMBRAS 
  Ogilby 
  

  

  Taeniomemhras 
  Ogilby, 
  Proc. 
  Linn. 
  Soc. 
  New 
  South 
  Wales, 
  vol. 
  23, 
  p. 
  241, 
  1898 
  

  

  (genotype: 
  Atherina 
  microstoma 
  Giinthcr). 
  

   Prancsella 
  Whitley, 
  Victorian 
  Nat., 
  vol. 
  50, 
  No. 
  10, 
  p. 
  241, 
  1934 
  (genotype: 
  P. 
  

  

  endorae 
  Whitley). 
  

  

  Jordan 
  and 
  Hiibbs' 
  reference 
  (1919, 
  p. 
  42) 
  to 
  specimens 
  of 
  A. 
  ?nicro- 
  

   stoma 
  from 
  Victoria 
  indicates 
  that 
  the 
  rami 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  are 
  ele- 
  

   vated 
  and 
  the 
  moutli 
  scarcely 
  smaller 
  than 
  several 
  other 
  species 
  of 
  

   the 
  genus. 
  This 
  appears 
  to 
  agree 
  with 
  two 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  South 
  

   Australian 
  Museum 
  sent 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  the 
  director, 
  Herbert 
  M. 
  Hale, 
  to 
  

   whom 
  I 
  express 
  my 
  sincere 
  thanks 
  for 
  his 
  cooperation. 
  The 
  two 
  

   specimens 
  (now 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  123274) 
  are 
  from 
  Port 
  Yv'illunga, 
  

   Australia, 
  and 
  were 
  identified 
  as 
  Atherina 
  microstoma 
  by 
  E. 
  R. 
  Waite. 
  

   The 
  rami 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  are 
  somewhat 
  elevated; 
  the 
  maxillary 
  

   reaches 
  to 
  a 
  vertical 
  line 
  at 
  front 
  of 
  eye 
  ; 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  minute 
  teeth 
  

   on 
  the 
  vomer 
  but 
  none 
  on 
  the 
  palatines; 
  and 
  the 
  air 
  bladder 
  ends 
  

   abruptly 
  and 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  anal 
  origin. 
  From 
  these 
  two 
  specimens 
  

   the 
  generic 
  description 
  was 
  made. 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  v^iQwrng 
  Pranesella 
  endorae 
  Whitley 
  to 
  this 
  geims 
  on 
  the 
  basis 
  

   of 
  his 
  1934 
  description. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CRATEROCEPIIALUS 
  McCulloch 
  

  

  Craterocephalus 
  McCulloch, 
  Proc. 
  Roy. 
  Soc. 
  Queensland, 
  vol. 
  24, 
  p. 
  4S, 
  pi. 
  1, 
  fig. 
  1, 
  

   1912 
  (genotype: 
  C. 
  fluviatiUs 
  McCulloch). 
  

  

  The 
  diagnosis 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  in 
  the 
  key 
  is 
  bused 
  on 
  the 
  original 
  de- 
  

   scription 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  genus 
  and 
  new 
  species 
  by 
  McCulloch, 
  cited 
  above, 
  

   and 
  on 
  eight 
  specimens 
  of 
  Craterocephalus 
  stercv^miiscarum 
  kindly 
  

   sent 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Ian 
  S. 
  R. 
  Munro. 
  These 
  were 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Barrow 
  

   River, 
  Kuranda, 
  North 
  Queensland. 
  

  

  Other 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  this 
  genus 
  are 
  C. 
  noxihuysi 
  (Weber) 
  , 
  C. 
  

   lacustris 
  Trewavas, 
  C. 
  randi 
  Nichols 
  and 
  Raven, 
  and 
  C. 
  annator 
  Whit- 
  

   ney. 
  

  

  STENATHERINA, 
  new 
  genus 
  

  

  FiGxjEEs 
  la, 
  2b, 
  36 
  

  

  Genotyjye. 
  — 
  Atherina 
  tonminchii 
  Bleeker=^. 
  hrachyptera 
  Bleeker. 
  

  

  This 
  new 
  genus 
  differs 
  from 
  all 
  other 
  genera 
  in 
  the 
  subfamily 
  

   Taeniomembrasinae 
  by 
  having 
  the 
  ascending 
  premaxillary 
  process 
  at 
  

   front 
  of 
  snout 
  long, 
  slender, 
  and 
  extending 
  past 
  front 
  of 
  orbits 
  into 
  the 
  

   interorbital 
  space, 
  vvith 
  a 
  second 
  process 
  or 
  spinelike 
  projection 
  later- 
  

   ally 
  on 
  the 
  premaxillary. 
  Other 
  important 
  differences 
  are 
  diagnosed 
  

   in 
  my 
  key. 
  Stenatherina 
  is 
  characterized 
  by 
  its 
  slender, 
  fusifonn 
  

   body 
  ; 
  the 
  air 
  bladder 
  ending 
  bluntly 
  and 
  abruptly 
  a 
  little 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  

   the 
  anal-fin 
  origin; 
  the 
  rami 
  of 
  mandible 
  somewhat 
  elevated; 
  the 
  gill 
  

  

  