FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 191 



fourth are olive-brown, with a sHght backward obhquity ; the 

 third is between the last three dorsal and the two anterior anal 

 spines, and the fourth between the sixth and fourteenth dorsal 

 and the sixth and ninth anal rays. The fifth is between the 

 median dorsal and anal rays, and curves backward to cross the 

 caudal peduncle. A large black oval ocellus on the dorsal fin 

 is included in the golden prolongation of the fourth band. 

 Dorsal fin yello"\^', except for t^^'o silvery shafts corresponding 

 to the interspaces between the body-bands ; tips of posterior 

 dorsal and anal rays black, the rays between the black margin 

 and the last cross-band pale blue, and the membrane golden. 

 Caudal and pectoral fins colourless. Ventrals white, with the 

 two inner rays blackish. 



I am indebted to Mr. J. Douglas Ogilby for the above colour 

 description, which is based on the "' Endeavour " specimens. 

 They only difi^er from Bleeker's figure in having the markings 

 much more pronounced, and the snout rather less produced. 



Synonymy. — Mr. Ogilby has also examined the type of 

 Chcetodon townlei, de Vis, and finds it identical with P. 

 ocellatus. 



Locs. — Specimens of this species are in the Austrahan 

 Museum collection from the folio Ming locahties : BataAaa 

 (co-type of C. oligacanthus, Bleeker) ; Manila, Philippine 

 Islands ; Port Curtis, and Mo re ton Bay, Queensland ; near 

 Sydney. Fourteen specimens, 85-134 mm. long, are preserved 

 in the " Endeavour " collection from the following localities : 



Twentv miles off Bustard Head Light, Queensland, 20 

 fathoms ; 8th July, 1910. 



Seven miles N.N.E. of Bo wen, Queensland, 16 fathoms ; 

 3rd August, 1910. 



Genus Coradion, Kanp. 



CORADION ALTIVELIS, Sp. nOV. 



(Plate Ivi., fig. 1.) 



D. viii. 33-34 ; A. iii. 22-23 ; P. 17 ; V. i. 5 ; C. 17. L. 

 lat. 47. Depth between the first dorsal and ventral spines 1.4 

 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 2.9-3 in the same. 

 Eye a little shorter than the snout, 3.1-3.2 in the head ; snout 

 2.7 in the same. Last dorsal spine 0.1, and third dorsal ray 

 0.1-0.2 longer than the head. 



Body deep, elevated, and strongly compressed. The 

 profile from the snout to the first dorsal spine forms an almost 

 straight, oblique line. Snout but little produced, maxillary 

 not reaching the vertical of the anterior nostril. Preorbital 

 bone serrated, about two-thirds as wide as the eye. Orbital 



