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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
eat any class of fish bait and 1 have seen one caught on a piece of banana. . . . This 
is what we call a Sun fish . . . . it is always to be seen on a calm day loafing on the 
surface with its back well out of the water.” 
This species is known only from Queensland and North Australia. 
Family SARDIDAE. 
Genus SARDA Cuvier, 1829. 
SARDA AUSTRALIS (Macloay). 
Felamys atistraJ Is MaAeay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, v, May 1 881, p. 557. Port Jackson, 
N. S. Wales. 
This is the Horse Mackerel, usually called S. chilieTisis in Australian lists, but 
local specimens never agree perfectly with descriptions and figures of extralimit^l 
ones, so I use the most acceptable Australian specific name. 
A specimen (Qld. Mus. regd. No. I. 5498), 477 mm. in length to end of middle 
caudal rays, from Masthead Island, Capricorn Group, was presented by Mr. K. Gron- 
wald. 
New record for Queensland. 
Genus WANDERER Whitley, 1937. 
WANDERER WALLISI Whitley. 
Wanderer wallisi Whitley, Austr. Zool. viii, 4, March 12, 1937, p. 229, pi. xiv, fig. 3. 
Northern New South Wales. 
A specimen of the Little Tunny (Qld. Mus. No. I. 5402) has been identified as 
this species by comparison with the tj^es in the Australian Museum. 
Locality.- — Kelso Reef, Townsville, Queensland. 
Presented by Mr. G. Coates. 
Family SOLEIDAE. 
Subfamily SYNAPTURINAE. 
STRANDICHTHYS, gen. nov. 
Orthotype, Synaptnra muelJeri Steindachner. 
This well-marked species of sole deserves to be generically separated from true 
Synaptnra Cantor 1849, which is typified by Pleuronectes comniersonii Laedpede 
(Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1802, pp. 599 and 694 ; earlier in vernacular form in vol. iii, 
1802, pi. xii, fig. 2) from Mauritius. 
The Australian 8 . muelleri for which I propose the new name StrandicMhys ^ 
differs from Synaptura (eommersonii) in being much deeper in body in proportion to 
its length, in having smaller teeth, long setae on the body, ctenoid scales on both sides, 
