400 NEW AUSTRALIAN FISHES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM . 



This genus, if warranted by the characters given, will come 

 near Lobotes. 



Gerres splendens. 



Lat. about 48. Tr. about 3£/9. 



The height of the body is 2£ ; the length of the head 3^ in the 

 length, s.c. ; orbit 2£, snout and interorbit each rather more than 

 J of the length of the head. The 3rd dorsal spine is more than |- 

 of the height of the body ; the 2nd anal more than £ of the 3rd 

 dorsal and longer than the 3rd anal. Scales persistent, most of 

 those on the back crenulated in the centre. Preorbital emarginate, 

 first dorsal snbfalciform, the upper profile is regularly convex, the 

 lower straight, and the belly flattened between the ventrals. Hind 

 limb of the preopercle nearly vertical, and its angle rounded 

 Sheath of dorsal fin moderate. 



Colour uniform silvery with blue and gold reflections. The 

 edge of the dorsal black. 



Length, 7£ inches. Locality, Cardwell. 



Scolopsis pleileius. 

 1). 10/9. A. 3/7. 



The height of the body is 3^, the length of the head 4^ in the 

 length, s.c. ; orbit 2£, interorbit 3, snout 3J- in the length of the 

 head. The height of the preorbital is g of the orbit, on the edge 

 of the orbit a single preorbital spine, with two feeble denticu- 

 lations beneath it on one side, not on the other, hind limb of pre- 

 operculum vertical and strongly serrated, its produced angle bears 

 3 large flat denticulations. The 3rd anal spine is equal in length 

 to the 2nd, but is much weaker. Upper profile gibbous over the 

 nape. 



Colour pale brown. A line of oval white spots at the base of the 

 first dorsal and anterior half of second running out along the middle 

 of the second. On the last five webs of the first and first of the 

 second dorsal a black spot between the white one and the base of 

 the spine. 



Length, 6 inches. Locality, Queensland. 



