NEW AUSTRALIAN FISHES IN THE QUEENSLAND 

 MUSEUM. Part II. 



By Charles W. De Vis, M.A. 



Ch.etodon aurora. 



D. 12/30 (about.) A. 3/20. Lat. 30. 



The profile of the head is very concave, the snout produced and 

 pointed, pre operculum slightly crenulated at the angle, dorsal and 

 anal fins rounded posteriorly. The ocular band covers the posterior 

 three-fourths of the oi-bit, and meets its fellow of the opposite side 

 on the chest. Two broad but very faint bands on the body, the 

 first from the fourth to sixth dorsal spines to the ventral, the 

 second, forming on the anterior part of the soft dorsal a bright 

 black triangle, goes to the anal. A black bar across the base of 

 the caudal. Behind the black triangle the soft dorsal is bright 

 buff, its posterior third brown. Anal, caudal peduncle and caudal 

 yellow, the fins with a narrow intra-marginal black line, tip of 

 caudal ti - ansparent. 



Length, 3£ inches. Locality, Queensland Coast. 



Closely related to C. Ulietensis, C & V. 



Ch.etodon ephippium. C. &, V. 

 A half-grown specimen, in all probability from Cardwell. 



Celetodon nigripes. 

 D. 14/23. A. 3/18. Lat. 35. 

 The insertion of the dorsal is elevated, the profile of the head 

 and nape descending from it in a nearly straight line. The snout 



