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NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN FISHES 
vestigial. Ventral inserted midway between the anal and the tip of 
the mandible or a little nearer the latter, and below the last 3rd. of 
the pectoral, its length l-f to 1-| in the head. Scales of cheeks and 
lower surfaces finely ciliated; 6 series of scales between the eye and 
the angle of the interopercle, 1 of which is on that bone ; opercular 
scales in 3 series, the outer larger than the body scales ; 20 scales 
in front of the spinous dorsal; 8 or 9 scales from the origin of the 
soft dorsal to behind the anal. Grill-rakers short, about 50 on the 
lower branch of the anterior arch, the longest f of the diameter of 
the eye. Dark blue above, silvery washed with bronze on the sides, 
pearly white below ; each scale of the back and sides with a golden 
brown median bar, forming together longitudinal bands ; opercle 
with a cloudy spot: dorsal and caudal fins dull greenish; an obscure 
blackish blotch in the axil of the pectoral : iris lead-blue, with a 
narrow r golden rim superiorly, \_tade, an allied species; oi/^s, form]. 
Type in the Queensland Museum. 
Total length 325 millimeters. 
Described from three Moreton Bay specimens purchased in the 
Brisbane Market. 
The synonvmy of the East Australian fresh water mullet having 
become overburdened by the addition of new names it may be 
advisable to correct it here, and so prevent further confusion. 
TEACHYSTOMA PETARD! 
Mugil breviceps Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, liii, 1866, p. 459, pi. i, fig. 1 : 
Port Jackson— id., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) xvii, 1866, p. 318— Ogilby, 
Catal. Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 41, 1886. Not of Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836. 
Mugil petardi Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr., p. 32, 1875 : Richmond River— 
Waite, Synops. Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 22, 1904. 
Mugil pettctrdi Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iv, 1879, p. 422— 
Ogilby, I.e., p. 42. Emended orthography. 
Trachystoma multidens Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1887, p. 614: Keruah River— 
Waite, I.e. 
Liza breviceps Tosh, Mar. Biol. Rep. Queensl., pp. 2 & 3, pi. ii, fig. 4, 1903: 
Nerang River. 
Mugil parviceps Waite, I.e. Substitute for Mugil breviceps preoccupied. 
SQUALOMUGIL gen. nov. 
Scales large and cycloid; head depressed, scaly, except the tip 
of the snout and the lower jaw. JVJouth moderate, obtusangular, 
inferior, not protractile. Upper lip thin ; maxillary concealed. 
Jaws with spatulate cilia. ISostrils widely separated, the anterior 
patent and subinferior, the posterior valvular and superior. Distal 
border of preorbital concealed. Soft dorsal and anal fins scaly, the 
