304 

 6. Rhombatractus goldiei (Macleay). 



Arts feus goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales VIII. 1883, p. 269. 



? Nematocentris novae-guineae Ramsay & Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 



Wales 2. I. 1886, p. 13. 



Aristeus Goldiei Perugia, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XIV. 1894, p. 548. 

 Rhombatractus goldiei Douglas Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXI. part 2, 



1896, p. 134. 

 ? Rhombatrac tus novae-guineae Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales XXI. part 2, 



1896, p. 134. 

 Rhombatractus affinis Max Weber, Nova Guinea V. Zool. Livr. 2, 1908, p. 234. 



ibid. IX. Livr. 4, 1913, p. 565. 



Rhombatractus -weberi Tate Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) I. 1908, p. 155. 

 Rhombatractus senckenbergianus Max Weber, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesell. 



XXXIV. 1911, p. 25. 

 Rhombosoma navae-guineae Tate Regan, Trans. Zool. Soc. London XX. Part 6, 



1914, p. 283 (pro parte). 

 Rhombosoma goldiei Tate Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1914, p. 339. 



DM.4 5; D 2 . 1. 12-16; A.I. 1824; P-i. H; V.I.5; 

 t.l. 34 36; L.tr. n 12. 



Dorsal profile a nearly straight line, sloping from dorsal to 

 snout, in older specimens somewhat concave behind head. 

 Ventral profile convex or very convex. Height 2.53.1, 2.9 3.8 

 in length with caudal. Head 3.2 3.5, 4 or somewhat more in 

 length with caudal. Eye 3 4, shorter or much shorter than 

 snout, which is about equal to postorbital part of head and 

 to interorbital space. Upper jaw prominent. Mouthopening 

 reaching to frontborder of eye or not so far in larger speci- 

 mens. Curved conical teeth in several rows in the jaws, ex- 

 tending on the outside of the lips, especially in their anterior 

 part, which is thickened. A transverse patch of teeth on vomer. 

 Few teeth on palatines. A patch of teeth on base of tongue. 

 Two or three rows of scales on suborbital part of cheeks. 

 Large scales on operculum, smaller ones on their superior part. 

 Dorsal separated by 15 16 scales from occiput. Spine of first 

 dorsal about equal to postorbital part of head, longer than 

 that of second dorsal, and much longer than that of anal, 

 which is about equal to eye. Length of base of anal equal to 

 or slightly longer x than distance between origin of first dorsal 

 and end of second dorsal. Origin of anal below, somewhat 

 before or somewhat behind that of first dorsal. Pectorals curved, 

 somewhat longer than head without snout. Scales slightly crenu- 

 lated at their hindborder. Caudal peduncle as high as long or 

 somewhat higher than long in large specimens, longer than 



