PISHES. MCCULLOCH. 187 



1855, p. 69. Id. Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish. ii. 

 1860, p. 257. Id. Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. ix, 1877, pi. 

 ccclxxxviii, fig. 4. Id. Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1914, 

 pt. 3, p. 650. 



Onar nebulosum De Vis, Proc. Lirm. Soc. N. S. Wales ix, 



1885, p. 875. 



Pscudochromis wildii Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus. No. 9, 1908, 

 p. 34. 



Pseudochromis nebulosus McCulloch, Mem. Qld. Mus. 

 iii, 1915, p. 49, pi. xvi, fig. 2. 



The holotype of P. wildii presents the following 

 characters: D.iii/17, 10; A.iii/14; P.17; V.i/5; C.17. L. 

 lat. 28/8 ; about 40 rows of scales between the operculum 

 and the hypural joint. Total length 68 mm. Depth 

 (17 mm.) 3-1 in the length of the hypural joint (54) ; 

 head (18) 3-0 in the same. Eye (5) longer than the 

 snout (4) 3-6 in the head; interocular space (3) 1-6 in 

 the eye. Pectoral fin (12) 1-5, twenty-fourth dorsal ray 

 (9) 2-0, and ventral fin (13) 1-3 in the head. 



The dorsal and anal spines are stout and pungent, 

 and increase in length backward. The anterior seventeen 

 dorsal rays are simple, the remainder and also all the 

 anal rays are branched. Scales finely ctenoid on the 

 body, but cycloid on the head, anterior portion of the 

 back, and the breast; those on the cheek are arranged 

 in about five rows, and scales cover the bases of the 

 posterior dorsal and anal rays. The colour is brown 

 with a dark spot at the base of each scale together form- 

 ing rows along the sides. The fins are dark brown, and 

 the dorsal bears traces of rows of darker spots or lines. 

 There is a curved dark line across the base of the pectoral 

 with a lighter area before and behind it. 



Synonymy. The Director of the Queensland 

 Museum, Mr. H. A. Longman, has lent me the holotype 

 of Pseudochromis wildii Ogilby for comparison with the 

 co-type of Onar nebulosum De Vis in the Australian 

 Museum, which I re-described and figured in 1915. The 

 two specimens are similar in all characters, and leave 

 no doubt that P. wildii is synonymous with P. nebulosus. 



Their identity with P. fuscus is not certain, but they 

 appear to agree well enough with Mtiller and Troschel's 

 description of that species. 



