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MEMOIRS OE THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Chirotyjye of Equulu spiniceps Saville-KenL 
A specimen is labelled Equula spiniceps in the Australian Museum (No. I. 382) 
and may be regarded as the chirotype of that species. It is 2| inches long and agrees 
with the specimens described above in detail. 
Locality.— 3ohn^ione> River, Queensland ; received by exchange from the 
Queensland Museum in 1886. 
Genus EQUULITES Fowler, 1904. 
Equulites Fowler, Journ. Aead. Naf. Sci. Philad. (2), xii., 4, June 10, 1904, p. 513. Orthotype, 
LeiognaihuN venniculatua Fowler. 
This genus has the lateral line ceasing well before the caudal fin, and the breast 
and thorax scaly. The dark wavy marks on the back, slender fin-spines, and graceful 
form of body are useful recognitioti marks. 
EQUULITES NOV-®HOLLANDI.ffi (Sfceindaehner). 
Equula 7 iovcehoUandice Steindachner, .Donkselu*. Akad. AVien xli., 1, 1879, p. 11. Townsville, 
Queensland (Jliiller). Type in Stuttgart Museum. Id. Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 
Ixxx., i., 1879, p. 379 (listed only). 
Leiognafhns novoehoUandiop MeCulloch & Whitley, Mem. Qld. Mus. viii., 1925, p, 145. Id. 
McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v., 1929, p. 212. 
D. viii./16 ; A. iii./14 ; L. lat. c/rcrt 60. Head almost 44, depth somewhat 
more than 3 in total length (nearly 00 mm.) ; eye and snout about 3. interorbital 
slightly less than 3 in head : snout conical, somewhat compressed ; antorbital siiines 
present ; lower border of lower Jaw straight ; lower margin of preoperculum 
extremely linely denticulated ; tlie angle slightly more tlian a right angle. 
Body elongate oval : the dorsal prohle ascends more strongly in the nuchal 
region than the corresiionding anterior ventral profile ; the upper profile of tlie head 
rises without any curve to the beginning of the weakly curved occipital slope ; body- 
scales very small, only the pierced ones of the lateral line, of which there are about 
()0 to the base of the caudal, are moderately large in proportion, and easily deciduous ; 
lateral line very weakly curved to the base of the short, low, caudal peduncle, on which 
it is horizontal. 
First dorsal spine very short ; second dorsal and anal spines strongly produced, 
compressed and flexible ; the first as long as the head, the last more than in the 
liead. When adpressed, the second dorsal spine readies the middle of the dorsal 
base. Third dorsal spine more slender, a little longer tlian the second anal spine, and 
shorter than the head by somewhat more than half the length of the snout ; the 
pectoral is at least | and the ventral about % of the head ; caudal forked, slightly 
longer than the head. 
Colour (in sjiirits) — Upper half of body washed with clear reddish-violet, lower 
half silvery with some speckles ; undulating, curved, small, dark stripes on the upper 
lialf of the body ; sides of snout blackish-brown ; dorsal with a black spot on the 
spinous portion. 
