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MEMOIliH OF THE QUFPJN^SLAND MUSEUM. 
Genus LEIOGNATHUS Lacepcde, 1802. 
Leiogmthn^ Lacepc-do, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv., 1S02. p. 448. Haplotype, L. argenteus Lacepede = 
Scomber edeyjtulus Bloch. Id. Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1918 {1919), p. 336 ^not 
synonymy). 
Liognathus Agassiz, Noruoncl. Zooh, 1846, Index Univ., pp. 203 and 212. Bmendation for 
Leiognallm^ Lacepcdt^. Logotype, Leiognathus argenteus Lacepede, by present designation. 
Id. Began, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903, ii., Oct. 1903, p. 63. Id. Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (8) xii., 1913, p. 122. 
Authors who have regarded the E^quiila edeniula of Day s “ Fishes of India ’ 
as the type of this genus instead of the original Scewher edenhUvs of Bloch (wliich Day 
seems to have misidentified as Eqmda Hneolaia Cuv. & Val.), appear to have been 
misled into applying the name Leiognaihns to the group of species which I have here 
restricted to Kqimla. The true Leiognathus edenlidns (Bloch) ajiparentiy has scaly 
breast, dorsal dusicy, bars on body, supraorl^ital serrated, snout plain, and lateral line 
complete, a group of characters which entitles it to generic separation from Equula. 
LEIOGNATHUS SERRULIFER (Richardson). 
Equula serrtilifera- Richartlson, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fish. 1848, p. 137, pi. lix., figs. 12-14. 
Sydney, New South Wales. Type in British Museum. Id. Bleeker, \ erh. Akad. Amsterd. 
ii., 1855, p. 11. 
Equula edeniula Giinthor, Intr. Stud. Fi.sh., 1880, p. 450, fig. 200. Australia. Copied from 
Richardson. Not Scomber edenlulus Bloch. 
E(]uula. edentata (sic) Savillc-Kcnt, Prelim. Rept. Food-Fish. Qld., 1889, p. 5, pi. x., fig. 33 ; E. 
edentula on p. 10 and on plate, which is copied from Richardson. Id. Saville-Kent, Gt. 
Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 290, and as E. edeniula on p. 369. 
Leiognathus serrulifer McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v,, 1929, p. 212. 
Richardson’s fish may have been wrongly localised as no member of the family 
LeiognathidjB has yet been reported from New South Wales.* Saville-Kent’s 
Queensland record is unsatisfactory and probably refers to a species of Equula. The 
elongated and strongly serrated dorsal spines slioukl enable this species to be identified 
without difficulty. 
LEIOGNATHUS NOVEMACULEATUS (Klunzinger). 
Equula splejidem var. noveynacAileatus Klunzinger, 8itzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien Ixxx., 1, 1879, p. 55. 
Port Denison, Queensland. Type in Stuttgart Museum. 
D. ix./lli ; A. iii./l3-]4. Height 2|, head 4t in length. Second dorsal spine 
H in head ; no black blotch on dorsal fin (Klunzinger). 
This may be a species of Enbleekeria, but a re-examination of the type is much 
to be desired. 
MACILENTICHTHYS, new genus. 
Orthotype, MACILENTICHTHYS POPEl, new species. 
Mouth protractile downwards ; teeth small ; head subequal to depth of body. 
I). viii./16 ; A. iii./14 ; fin-spines slender, not greatly produced; breast scaly; 
* Since writing this, I have received specimens of Eqimlites moretoniensis (q.v.) from 
Pittwater, near Sydney. — G. P. W., Feb. 1932. 
