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This species was originally described from the Arafura Sea, and Gunther’s type 
was figured by Weber and Beaufort. It may be admitted into Australian faunal lists 
since the species evidently occurs commonly in tropical Queensland where Mr, 
Melbourne Ward and I have collected it : — 
2 Specimens trawled at night off Shaw Island, Whitsunday Passage, 
Queensland, in 10 fathoms over a bluish muddy bottom in three 10 
minute hauls, 5 September 1935. 
5 Specimens trawled through strong currents, moonlit night, 9-11 p.m. off 
“ Sea Star Reef,” Shaw Island, Queensland, about 10 fathoms, mud 
bottom ; 13 September 1935. 
This fish can inflict a sting with its fin-spines. 
Austr. Mus. regd. Nos. lA. 6731-3 ; duplicates in the Queensland Museum, 
Brisbane. 
Thinking that this catfish might be the same as a Brisbane species, I asked 
Mr. G. J. J. Watson of the Queensland Forest Service to get me fresh examples, but 
all the specimens he kindly suj)plied were identified as tlie very distinct Ariid catfish 
Neoarius australis (Gunther). I regard Arius curtisii Castelnau, the type of Neoarius, 
as a synonym of A. australis Gunther. 
Family SYNODONTIDAE. 
Subfamily Harpadontinae. 
Grenus HARPADON Le Suenr, 1825. 
Harpadon Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. v, July, 1825, p. 51. Orthotype, 
Salmo microps Le Sueur. 
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Harpadon Cuvier, Regne Auim. ed. 2, ii, April 1829, p. 314, and of later authors, 
Triurus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classif. Fish. Amphib. Kept, ii, July 1839, p. 288. Haplotype, 
T. micTocephaius Swainson. Name preoccupied by Triurus Lacepede, 1800, a young Sunfish. 
SauridicMhys Bleeker, Act. Soo. Sci. Indo-Neerl, v, 1858, p. 2. Orthotype, Saurus 
ophiodon Cuvier (fide Jordan, Gen. Fish.). 
Visitors to the East are often confused when they see Bombay Duck on the 
menu and discover that this is really a fish {Harpadon nehereus). The origin of the 
name is obseme, as Yule and Burnell ( Hobson- Jobson, 1886, p. 96) point out. The 
fish when fresh is called Bummelo in parts of India, and, when dined, is knowm as 
Bombay^ Duck, being usually eaten with kedgeree. A very fine account of the Indian 
fish has been given by Hora (Journ. Bombay Nat, Hist. Soc. xxxvii, 3, 1934, p. 640 
and figs.). Since Hora’s paper ajipeared, Setna and Bana (Journ. Roy. Microscop. 
Soc. (3) Iv, 1935, p. 165) have shown that a protozoan parasite is likely to affect man 
when eating Bombay Duck, whilst Delsman and Hardenberg (De Indische Zeevisschen 
en Zeevisscherij , 1934, p. 161, figs. 110-111) have figured the young fish. Imported 
