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A tropical species, twice recorded from N.S. Wales waters, but further proof 

 of its occurrence here is desirable. It is perhaps synonymous with 31. troschelti 

 Bleeker . 



139f. M. argenteus. Flat-tailed Mullet. Id. Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. 



Uranie, 1825, p. 338, pi. 59, 3. 31. peronii Stead, Ed. Fish. N.S. 



Wales, 1908, p. 42, pi. 13 (PI. xiv) . 

 An important food-fish, inhabiting the inlets along the coast. Length 18 

 inches. 



139g. M. australis. Id. Steindachner, Denk. Akad. Wiss. Wien xli. i, 

 1879, p. 6. 



A little known species which has not been recognised since it was first de- 

 scribed . 



(31. longimanus was included in a N.S. Wales list by Ogilby, Cat. Fish. 

 N.S. Wales, 1886, p. 41, on the supposition that Steindachner had recorded it 

 from Port Jackson; Waite also listed the species as 31. amnesias. But Stein- 

 daehner's specimen came from (Queensland, and the species is not known from New 

 South Wales) . 



140. Myxus Gthr.. Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish, iii, 1861, p. 466 (elongatus) . 



140a. M. elongatus. Tallegalane or Sand Mullet. Id. Gthr., Tom. cit.; 



Id. Waite, Tr. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xl, 1916, p. 454, pi. xliv. (PI xiv) . 

 Abundant along the coast. Length 15 inches. 3Iugil crenidens Kner, Novara 

 Zool. i, 1865, p. 229, pi. 9, 4, is apparently synonymous with this species. 



141. Agonostomus Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1830 (1832), p. 116 (telfairii) . 

 141a. A. forsteri. Yellow-eyed Mullet. Mugil forsteri Cuvier & Val- 

 enciennes, H. N. Poiss. xi, 1836, p. 141. Dajaus diemensis Richard- 

 son, Ichth. Erebus & Terror, 1845, p. 37, pi. 26, 1-4 (PI. xiv). 



A southern species, plentiful only towards the Victorian border. 



142. Trachystoma Ogilby. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 614 (multidens) . 



142a. T. petardi. Fresh-water Mullet. Mugil petardi Castelnau, Res. 

 Fish. Austr., 1875, p. 32. 31. brevieeps Steindachner (nee. Cuv. & 

 Val.), Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien liii, 1866, p. 459, pi. 1, 1 (PI. xiv). 

 Common in the eastern rivers of the State north of Sydney. Length nearly 

 2 feet. 



LXXIV. Family Atherinidae. 



A. Head and entire body scaly. 



B. Premaxillaries not expanded near the symphysis. 



C. Gill-rakers slender and numerous; vomer with teeth. 



D. Upper edge of each mandibular ramus expanded and elevated pos- 

 teriorly Atherina (143). 

 DD. Mandibular rami not expanded posteriorly. Hepsetia (144). 

 CC. Gill-rakers rudimentary; palate toothless. Craterocephalus (145). 

 BB. Premaxillaries expanded forward at the symphysis. 



E. Anal little longer than the second dorsal. Pseudomugil (147). 

 EE. Anal much longer than the second dorsal. 



Melanotaenia ( 14S ) . 

 AA Head and anterior portion of body naked. ho (116i. 



