101 
SOME FISHES OF THE FAMILY LEIOGNATHIDJE. 
AURIGrEQUULA LONGISPINIS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
(Plate XIII., figs. I and 2.) 
JAquula lomiispinis Cuvier & Valeneieimos, Hist. Nat. Poiss. x., Sept. 1835, p. 94. Waigiou, Xot 
Equuki longispina De Vis, which is a species of Equulitefi. 
Equula asina De Vis, Proc. Lirm. Soc. X. S. Wales ix., 3, Xov. 29, 1884, p. 544. Cape York. 
Queensland. Lectotype and cotypes in Queensland and Australian Museums examined. 
Id. Saville-Kent, Prelim. Kept. Food-Fish. Qld. 1889, p. 10 and Gt. Ban-. Reef, 1893, 
p. 309 (listed only). 
-Equula jascmta Schmeltz, Mus. Godef. Cat. iv.. May 1869, p. 18 (Samoa and Fiji). Id. Saville- 
Kont, Prelim. Kept. Food-Fish Qld., 1889, p. 10 and Gt. Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369 
(Queensland Saville- Kent’s Qld. Mus. specimens seen). Not Glupea fasciata Lacepede, 
1803, from Mauritius. 
Equula smithursti Ramsay & OgUby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2) i., May 25, 1886, p. 11. Hood 
Lagoon, New Guinea. Holotype in Aust. Mus. examined. 
Eeiognathm fa.^ciafus Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. B'ish. xxv., 1906, p. 273. (Samoa; one of 
their spcu-imens in Aust. Mu.s. examined.) Id. Starks, Stanf. Univ. Pubh, Univ. Ser., v., 
1911, p. 9 et ibid. Biol. Sci., iv., 3, 1926, p. 235 (cranium of Samoan specimen). Id. ITowler, 
Mem. Bish. Mus. x., 1928, p. 153, Id. McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v., 1929, p. 213 
(Queensland, &c,). Not Clupea fasciata Lacepede, 1803. 
Eeiognathus smithursti Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish, xxv., 1906, p. 273. Ex Ramsay & 
Ogifby. Id. Jordan & Dickerson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxxiv., 1908, p. 610. (Suva, Fiji). 
Id. Fowler, Mem. Bish. Mus. x., 1928, p. 153. 
Eeiognathus asinus McCulloch & Whitley, Mom. Qld, Mus. viii., 1925, p. 145. Ex De Vis. Id. 
McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v., 1929, p. 213. 
Eeiognathus (Aurigequtda) Jasciatus Whitley, Journ. Pan-Pacif. Res. Inst, ii., 1, 1927, p. 5, No. 127. 
B’iji. 
Description of Lectotype of Equula asina De Vis. 
I). viii./16 ; A. iii./13 ; P. 20 ; V. i./5 ; C. ? ; L. lat circa 60. Head 
(16 mm.) 3, depth (28) 1-7 in length to hypural joint (48-5) ; eye (6) greater than 
postorbital portion of the head (5-6), snout (5-2), and interorbital (5-6) ; second 
dorsal spine (at lea.st 16 ram., tip broken) longer than head ; second anal spine (9) 
longer than tliird (6-o) and .subequal to third dor.sal sjhne (8-6). 
Head naked, about as long as high, upper profile steeper than lower ; snout 
roundly con\ ex ; eye large, about as dee]) as its distance to the lower preopercular 
margin, which is strongly serrated ; antorbitai spines divergent ; supraorbital smootli, 
maxillary reaching to below anterior fourth of eye ; bands of fine, movable, setiform 
teeth in jaws ; gill-rakers pointed, about a millimeter long, at least fifteen on lower 
limb of hrst gill-arch. 
Body doo]). fairly evenly rounded in outline, the upper profile rather more 
convex than the lower. The type is now almost denuded of scales, but the anterior part 
of the thorax was evidently naked originally ; lateral line comj)lete ; a.xillary scale 
almost as long as ventral spine ; a long ])rocumbeut spine before dorsal and anal fins ; 
First erect dorsal and anal spines minute, the second, produced, apparently broken iii 
the type ; third dorsal and anal spines with fine flexible points ; the bases of the 
