2i6] records of W.A. MUSEUM. 
a. Outer row of teeth considerably larger than the others. 
Scales extending forward to below origin of soft dorsal. 
Gnaihypops. 
b. Body and fins light with numerous small dark brown 
spots ----- rnacnlaius . ' 
bb. Body and fins dark, sometimes with irregular scattered 
dark spots - - . . . inornaius 
bbb. Head with small, body with large incomplete brown 
rings, dorsal, anabaud caudal with oblique bars, the 
former with a large black spot anteriorily. 
dannniensis. ’ 
aa. Outer row of teeth scarcely larger than the others. 
Scales not extending forward beyond middle of pectorals. 
Mcrogyinnus. 
c. Scales very small, covering the greater part of the 
sides and belly - . . exiiiiiiis. * 
cc. Scales larger, confined to hinder half of body, belly 
naked - - - jacksoniensis. “ 
I have compared the types of Batvcwhus punctiilatus, Ramsay “ 
and Opisthognathus macnlatiis, Alleyne and Macltay * and find them 
to be the same species. 
Family GERRIDAE. 
Genus PAREQUULA, Steindachner. 
PAREQUULA MELBOU RNENSIS, Castelnau. 
Gerres melboimteiisis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet,, I., 1872, pp. 158, 245, and 
lot. cil., II,, 1873, p. 37. /i.. Macleay, Proc, Linn.’ Soc. 
N.S. Wales, V., 1S81, p. 3S0. 
Pareqiiula licornis, Steindachner, Deiiks. Akad. Wiss. Wien, XLI, i,, 1879, p. 8. 
Id., Klunzinper, Sitzb., Akad, Wiss, Wien, LXXX,, i., 
1879, p. 380. 
Chthaiimlopleryx melbnurnensis , Ogilby, Proc. Zool., Soc,, 1S87, p, 616, figure. 
Id., McCulloch, Zool, Res. " Endeavour ” I , pt. i., 
1911, p. 63. 
Having compared the descriplion of Parequula bicovnis with the 
specimens on which Ogilby based his genus ChthamaJoptevyx, f have 
no doubt that the two names refer to the one species. According 
to Steindachner the scales are ctenoid (ciliated) along the edge and 
1 Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S, Wales, I, 1877, p. 280, pi. IX, 
fig. 3. 
2 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, II, 1878. p. 355, pi. IX, fig. 3. 
3 Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., XXI, 1908, p. 18. 
^ Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S, Wales, V, 1881. p, 570. 
« Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, VIII, 1883, p. 177. 
