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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 
Family CARANGIDAE. 
(lenus TURRUM Whitley, 1932. 
TURRUM EMBURYI, \Vhitley. 
Turrum emhuryi Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus. xviii, 6, April 20, 1932, p. 337, pi. xxxviii, 
tig. 4, North West Island, Queensland. 
D. viii/31 ; A. ii/27 ; P. ii/20 ; V. i/5. 
Head (200 mm.) 3*5, depth (circa 190) about 3*7 in standard length (circa 700). 
Eye (25) 8, snout (70) 2-0 in head. Profile swollen oyer eyes. Upper jaw the longer. 
Maxillary broad, not reaching back as far as eye. Villiform teeth on jaws, vomer and 
palatines. No exterior enlarged teeth. Cheeks and top of opercles scaly. Pseudo- 
branchi^-e present. 
Body rather elongate and tapering. Caudal peduncle depressed. 
Depth of origin of first dorsal fin about 180 mm., much shorter than length of 
base of soft dorsal fin, 270 mm. 
About 22 small and 28 large scutes on straight portion of lateral line which 
extends almost half \vay from caudal fin to shoulder, ])ut not extending as far forward 
as origins of soft dorsal or anal fins. Curved portion of 1. lat slightly longer than 
straight portion. Breast naked. 
Dorsal and anal lobes falciform, but not greatly produced, the last ray of each 
fin lengthened. Pectoral falciform. Ventrals short. Caudal forked. 
General colour in formalin, brownish yellow with faint dusky blotches on fins 
and caudal peduncle. A very narrow fuscous margin to dorsal and caudal fins. An 
indistinct liumeral blotch. 
Described from a specimen (Qld. Mus. regd. No. 1. 5333), about 700 mm. 
in standard length. 
Locality . — Gulf of Carpentaria. Collected by Mr. T. Culman. 
There is also a small specimen (Q. M. No. I. 5499) from Gladstone, Qld. ; 
presented by Mr. G. R. H. Richmond. 
MELBANELLA, gcu. nov. 
Orthotype, Micropus mulleri Steindachner (Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xli, 1, 
1879, p. 7, from Hobson’s Bay, Viotoria) —Mdbanella mulleri. 
Tlie species for which I propose the above new name has been placed in several 
inappropriate genera by authors. Its original situation in Micropus is untenable 
because Micropus was employed by Wolf, 1810, for a genus of l)irds, and by Hiibner, 
1818, for a genus of Le2fido])tera, before Gray first used it for a fish in 1831 {vide 
Shorborn, Index Animalium). Klunzinger (Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien Ixxx, 1, 1879, 
p. 378) noted this invalidity and placed Steindachner’s species, of wliich he saw the 
