SOME FISHES OF THE FAMILY LEIOGN AT HUJ/E. 
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Locality. — Cape York. Queensland ; collected by Kendall Broadbent. 
Queensland Museum Reg. No. I. 1703. 
Synonymy. — On comparing the types of Eqimla simplex with those of E. ovalis, 
I find no characters to maintain the two as distinct species. The middle-sized of 
three speennens labelled type in the Queensland Museum (No. I. 13/1702) is hereby 
designated Icctotype of Eqmda simplex. This specimen has J). viii./16 ; A. iii./14. 
Head (11.5 nnn.) 3, depth (17) 2 in length to hypural joint (35*5) ; eye (4) equal to 
postorbital portion of head (4) and a little greater than snout or interorbital (3*7) ; 
second dorsal spine (7) 1*6 and second anal spine (6) T9 in head ; total length 1% inches. 
Otherwise agreeing exactly with the description of E. ovalis given above. The types 
of both species were collected at Cape York by Broadbent at the same time. 
Affinities. — Eubleel'eria ovalis is closely allied to E. splendens (Cuvier) .from 
India, but is plumper in build, with the mouth terminal instead of overhung by snout, 
and has depth T9 to 2*2 in standard length instead of 1*7 to T9 as in Madras specimens 
of the latter species examined by me. The anterior portion of the lateral line dips 
downwards slightly in E. ovalis vhereas it is evenly curved throughout its length in 
E. splendens and the latter species has the upper profile of the head steeper. 
Besides the types of Equnla ovalis and smiplex from Cape York, I have examined 
specimens identified as LeiognalJms splendens by Ogilby in the ‘‘ Endeavour ” collection 
from off Gloucester Head and Bowen and in the Queensland Museum from Cape 
Bowling Green, collected by Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris, Reg. Nos. Qld. Mus. I. 1981- 
1984 and 1987-1988 ; Austr. Mus. lA. 4908, 4917-4918, 4920, 4924 ; Endeavour ” 
Nos. E. 2520-2524, 2721, and 2780-2781. 
EUBLEEKEEIA (NTJCHEQUBLA) NUCHALIS (Temmiuck & Schlegel). 
Cenirogaster argentatus Houttuyn, Verb. HolL Maat. Weet. Haarlem xx., 2, 1782, p. 334 (fide 
SherV)orn, ludox Anim.). Japan. Not Leiognathus argenteus Lacepede, 1802, from India; 
not Equula argeniea Do Vis, 1884, from Queensland. 
Equula nuchdis Temmiiu^k & 8chIogel, Kaun. Japon. (Poiss., 1845), p. 12(3, pi. Ixvii. (fig. 1). 
Nagasaki, Japan. Id. Kiciiardson, Kept, loth meet. Brit. As.sii. Adv. 8ci., 1845 (1846), p. 
276 (Canton). Id. Blookor, Verh. Bat. Gen. xxv.. 1853, Japan, p. 38 (Nagasaki ; described). 
Id. Ounthcr, Cat. Fisb. Brit. ^lus. ii., I860, p. 500. Id. Be Vis, J*roc. Liim. Soc. N. 8. Wales 
ix., 1884, p. 545 (Quoen.sland, i.e.. Cape York; De Vis’ specirnens seen). Id. Saville-Kent, 
Prelim. Kept. Food-Fish. Qkb, 1880, p. 10, and Gt. Barrier Reef, 1803, p. 369. 
Leiognathus nuchalift Bleeker, Ned. Tijdsehr. Bierk. iv., 1873, p. 132 and Verb. Akad. Amsterdam 
xviii., 1870, p. 16 (fide W'eber & Beaufort, 1911). Id. Jordan & Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie 
Mus. X., 1925, p. 225. Id. McCulloch & Whitley, Mem. Qld. Mas. viii., 1925, p. 145. Id. 
McCulloch. Austr. Mu.s. Mem. v., 1929, p. 213 (Queensland, &c.). 
Equula gerreoides Be Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales ix., 1884, p. 545. Cape York, Queensland ; 
Be Vis’ .specimens seen. Not E. gerreoides Bleeker, 1851, from Batavia. Spelt E. ge^ieoides 
by Saville-Kent. 
Leiognathus argentatum Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxiii., 1901, p, 747. Ex Houttuyn. 
Japan. 
Leiognathus argentimn (sic) Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xlii., 1912, p. 412 (Suruga Market, Japan). 
Leiognathus argenteus Jordan & Metz, Mem. Carnegie Mus. vi., 1913, p. 29 (Fusan). Not L. 
argenteus Lacepede, 1802, from India. 
