ON SOME FISHES FROM NEW GUINEA, 339 
23. Note on Aristeus goldiei Macleay, and on some other 
Fishes from New Guinea. By C. Tare Reaan, M.A. 
[Received March 17, 1914: Read April 21, 1914. | 
(Text-figures 1 & 2.) 
INDEX. 
Page 
Apisteus Goldiet 1.0... 6.2.0.0 v vee eee ener p eet tet enn ees 339 
Nematocentris rubrostriatus ...... 20.00 cece ee 339 
ETD GETE STURT S eo OE iter eu Gua aeie ea yea) 
Mr. A. R. McCulloch, of the Australian Museum, has very 
kindly sent me some notes on the types of Aristeus goldiei Macleay, 
accompanied by some drawings, which are here reproduced. 
These leave no room for doubt that this is the species that I have 
recently described as Rhombosoma nove-guinee Rams. & Ogilb. 
(Regan, Trans. Zool. Soc. xx. p. 983, 1914); as Macleay’s name 
has precedence the species should be named Rhombosoma goldiet. 
According to Mr. McCulloch the types, from the Goldie River, 
New Guinea, are ten in number and measure 44 to 86 mm. in 
total length. The dorsal rays number V-VI, I 13-14, the anal 
rays I 21-24 and the scales in a longitudinal series 34 or 3D. 
Text-figure I, 
Rhombosoma goldiei : mouth, four times natiral size 
The depth of the body varies from 34 in the length in the largest 
specimen to 3? in the smallest. Allare marked alike and appear 
to have been silvery, with the back darker, a broad dark band 
from pectoral to caudal, and a black band from shoulder to eye. 
Mr. McCulloch tells me that the types of Vematocentris nove- 
guinee are mislaid and that the type of V. rubrostriatus Rams. & 
Ogilb. is damaged about the mouth-parts ; a figure of the upper 
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