SOME FISHES OF THE FAMILY LEIOGNATHIDJE, 
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The above description has been compiled from a translation of the original 
account given by Steindachner, who noted that his species was near Equula leuciscus 
Gunther, but had the head relatively longer and second dorsal spine shorter. 
I have not been able to recognise this species in the series of Queensland fishes 
which I have studied, and regard its present generic identification as tentative only. 
EQUULITES HASTATUS (Ogilby). 
{Plate X1V-. flg. 1.) 
Equula longispina. De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, ix., 3, Nov. 29, 1884, p. 542. Cape York, 
Queensland. Holotype (Austr. Mus. No. I. 405) examined. Name preoccupied bv E. 
longispinis Cuv. & Val., 1835, a species of Aungequula. 
Equula Hneolata De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales ix., 3, Nov. 29, 1884, p. 545. Cape York. 
De Vis’ specimen seen. Not Equula Hneolata Ckiv. & Val. 
Leiognalhus hastaim Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. i., 1, Nov. 27, 1912. p. 58. New name for Equula 
lonqispina. De Vis, preoccupied. Id. McCulloch & Whitley, Mem. Qld. Mus. viii., 1925, p. 
145. Id. McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v., 1929, p. 214. 
D. viii./lf) ; A. iii./14 ; P. 18 ; V. i./5 ; C. 15 branched rays. L. lat. circa 45. 
Head (19 mm.) 3-5, depth (30) 2-2 in length to hypnral joint (67) ; eye (7) subequal 
to interorbital (7) and postorbital portion of liead (7) and longer than snout (6) ; 
.second dorsal spine (14-5 mm. 4- ?) and second anal spine (c. 15 mm.) unfortunately 
broken, but Ogilby stated they were 1-7 and 3-4 in length of body respectively, so the 
dorsal spine must have been about 39 mm. in length originally. 
A narrow strip of long, slender, movable teeth in each jaw ; suj)raorbital very 
slightly irregular to the touch, but smootli to the sight ; lower preopercular margin 
feeblj' serrated ; antorbital spines small ; gill-rakers slender, pointed, pectinate. 
Skin pitted. Most of the scales have been rubbed off, but breast evidently 
originally scaly ; second and third dorsal and third anal spines serrated : spines anil 
rays of dorsal and anal fins comparatively lojiger than in most species of Leiognathida^ ; 
the last doi'sal spine looks rather like a rav. which mav account for De Vis’ formula 
D. 7/16. 
The general characters are as described by Ogilby. 
Colour (after long preservation)— Cniform silvery, browmish on back with 
some irregular grey markings which are now difficult to discern ; a. dark mark on snout ; 
apparently no black blotch on spinous dorsal. 
Described and figured from the liolotype of Equula longispina De Vis and 
Leiognalhus hastatus Ogilby, a specimen 67 mm. in standard length or little over 35- 
inches in total lengtli. Australian IMuseum Registered No. I. 465. 
Locality.— C&pe York, Queensland ; received by exchange from the Queensland 
iMuseum in 1886. 
This species is distinguished from its congeners by its elongate fin-spines and 
deep body. It is allied to Equulites morelonitnsis (Ogilby), of which it seems to be a 
northern form. The “Endeavour” trawled twenty-five specimens of E. hastatus in 
19-35 fathoms, N.E. of Gloucester Head, Queensland, in August 1910 (Austr Mus 
Nos. lA, 4909, 4910, 4919 ; E. 2775, 2776). 
