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MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
EQUULITES MORETONIENSIS (Ogilby). 
(Plate XIV., Fig. 2.) 
Eeiogmxthus moretoniensis Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. i., 1, Nov. 27, 1912, p. 59. Bulwer, Moreton 
Bay, Queeuslaml (type: Qld. Mus. No. 1 1583) and of£ Moreton Island, 9 fathoms 
(“Endeavour” (!oll.). Id. Faradiee & Whitley, Mem. Qld. Mus. ix., 1927, p. 84 (Pellew 
Group, Gulf of Carpentaria). Id. McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v., 1929, p. 214. 
A co-tvpe of Leiognathm moretonieMsis Ogilby is in the Australian Museum 
(No. J. 12590) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. It is 57-5 mm. in standard length or 
nearly 3 inches in total length, and is the smaller of the two types from Bulwer. 
The species has been described in detail by Ogilby. but the following characters are 
note\^ortliy. 
B. i-iii./16 (last di\n‘ded) ; A. ni./14 ; P. 17 ; V. i./5 ; C. 15 branched rays. 
L. lat. less than 40, becoming obsolete below la-st dorsal ray. 
Head (17 mm.) 3*3 and depth (25) 2*3 in standard length (57-5) ; eye (6-5) 
greater than intcrorbital (5), snout (5*o), and postorbital portion of head (5*8) ; 
second dorsal spine (10 mm. ? incomplete) and second anal spine (10) 1*7 in head ; 
dorsal and anal spines and rays att(muate ; top of head pitted ; supraorbital rugose , 
a narrow stri]> of minute teeth in each jaw ; breast scaly. 
Snout dusky , no black blotch on dorsal fin ; greyish marks on upper part of 
body and a more or less distinct dark stripe along posterior part of sides, as shown 
lin the accompanying figure ; a conspicuous dark band below the base of the soft 
dorsal fin. 
Specimens from Port Darwin and the Pellew Group, North Australia, in the 
Australian ]\Iuseum may represent a new variety of this species, as in these the lateral 
dark stripe is broken up into speckles which extend over the lower parts of the iiosterior 
portion of the sides.* 
EQUULITES VIRGATUS (Fowler). 
■? “ Bindoo karah ” Kussell, Fish. Vizag. 1803, p. 50, pi. Ixiv., in genus Vizagapatam. 
? Eqimla hindus Ouvie.v & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. x., Sept. 1835, p. 78, Based on Bussell, 
pi. 64. Vhzagapatam. Id. Cantor, .lourn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xviii., 1850, p. 1130* Cat! 
Malay. Fish. 1850, p. 148 (Sea of Pinang and Coromandel). Id. Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit, 
Mus. ii., 1860, p. 497. Id. Day, Fish. India, 1876, p, 240. 
■iEquula bindoMe.^ Bleekor, Nat. Tijds.l.r, Ned. Ind. i., 1851, pp. 344 and 372 Batavia Id 
Giinthor, Cat. P’i.sh. Brit. Mus. ii., 1860, p. 501. 
Leioqnathus virgatm FoNvlor, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Soi. Philad. (2) xii., 4, June 10, 1904, p. 515 pi. xv. 
loM^or figure to right. Padang, Sumatra. Id. Evermami & Seaie, Bull. U. S Bur Fish' 
'iol',” & Bean, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus. Ixii | 
1922, j). 22 (Formosa), 
Leiognathus hindus 
Queensland. 
Cuv. & V'al. 
Ogilby, Ann. Kept. Amat. Fish. Assoc. Qld., 1910-11 (July 1911) p 11 
Ogilby’s specimens in “ Endeavour ” coll, examined. ? Not Equula bindus 
* Mr. Melbourne Ward has 
water. Broken Bay (Austr. Mus. 
'G. P. W., Feb. 1932. 
recently^ collected s]:)ecimens of Equulites moretoniensis at Pitt- 
Regd. Nos. lA. 5428-9). New record for New Soutli Wales.— 
