620 DESCRIPTION OF TWO QUEENSLAND FISHES, 



Upper surface grey, lighter on the head, base of tail and front 

 of thighs. Beneath bu%-white. Upper surface of parachute, 

 both edges of the arms and front edge of the thighs, a stripe 

 down posterior aspect of the thighs, a dorsal stripe from between 

 the eyes to between the tips, a narrow circle round the eye, a 

 broad semicircle over the ear and a patch below it brownish-black. 

 Under edge of parachute dusky. Hands and feet above buffy- 

 grey. Edge of parachute and hinder angle of ear buff. Tail 

 grey on its basal half passing gradually into black at the tip. The 

 dorsal stripe commences in a point between the eyes and dies out 

 opposite the tips. The black edges of the f orelimb meet obscurely 

 over the wrist — that of the hind limb is continuous over the 

 ancle with the broad dusky stripe down the ham. Loc. K'orth 

 of Cardwell. 



In size intermediate between B. australis and B. sciiweus, the 

 present species differs from both the others in its markings and 

 in having shorter ears, and a rather more slender and less hairy 

 tail. 



Description of two new Queensland Fishes. 



Br Charles W. De Vis, B.A. 



Calliontmus achates. 



D. 4 0/8. A. 0/7. 



Preopercular spine short bifid, one spinule being turned 

 inwards and forwards, the other inwards and upwards. Head 

 triangular, snout narrow, pointed. First dorsal elevated, second 

 much lower. Tail short, rounded. AVebs of first dorsal and 

 anal scalloped. Branchial orifice small, nearly in the same 

 vertical with the origin of the dorsal and the preopercular spine. 

 Lateral line slightly wavy. Brown with small blue-edged black 

 spots on the cheeks and jaws. First dorsal with numerous dark 

 angular parallel lines (resembling those in ' fortification agate') 



