SOME FISHES OF THE FAMILY LEIOGN AT HIDYE. 
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The colours have now faded, but De Vis describes them as '' Colour silvery, 
with a pink tinge on the back. Three dark lines, terminating very obscure bands, 
.across the back, at the base of the soft dorsal and one on the edge of the caudal 
peduncle.” 
Text-figure 1. Equula decora De Vis. 
Lectotype o? Equula argeniea De Vis-Holotype of Leiognathus dcvlsi Whitley. 
Loc, Cape York, Queensland. 
Cx. P. Whitley del. 
Described from the lectotype of Equula decora De Vis, the smallest of three 
■specimens which have been utilised in making the description, 29 mm. or slightly 
more in standard length or about If inches in total length. 
Six cotypes are recorded by De Vis, but only three are in the Queensland 
Museum consignment, and there arc none in the Australian Museum. 
Locality. — Cape York, North Queensland ; coll. Kendall Broadbent. 
Lectotype of Eqimla argentea De Vis = IJolotype of Leiognathus devisi Whitley. 
The type-specimen, though now almost denuded of scales, has one or two left 
■on the sides of the thorax ; lateral line complete ; two small antorbital spines ; about 
fifteen pointed gill-rakers on lower limb of first gill-arch ; teeth weak, movable, spaced, 
pointed, arranged in a narrow strip (almost a single series) in each jaw ; no black 
blotch on dorsal fin or on snout ; depth 2 in length. 
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