454 NEW AUSTRALIAN FISHES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 



produced, conical. The dorsal and anal fins pointed at the posterior 

 end. The ocular band is narrower than the orbit, but widens on 

 its lower edge. Body and fins uniform brownish grey, slate colour 

 posteriorly. Anal with a broad black edge commencing in a point 

 at the tip and dilating over the greater part of the spines. 

 Length, 4 inches. Locality, Queensland. 



Ch.etodon germanus. 

 D. 13/24. A. 3/18. Lat. 42. 



Nape rather gibbous in front of the dorsal. Snout short, equal 

 in length to the diameter of the orbit. Dorsal and anal rounded 

 No ocular band. An indistinct dark band across the forehead, and 

 a black patch on the gibbosity of the nape. Body with about 

 eight oblique bands descending forwards. One parallel to them on 

 the base of the anal. Soft dorsal with a narrow black intra- 

 marginal line. Caudal with a narrow black crescent in the middle 

 and broad transparent tip. Anal with a within black edged buff 

 intra-marginal concentric band, and brown margin. 



Length, 2f inches. Locality, Queensland. 



CHiETODON TOWNLEYI. 



D. 6/28. A. 3/20. Lat. 54. 



Snout a little produced, longer than the diameter of the orbit. 

 Ventral reaching the anal. Dorsal spines gradually increasing in 

 length to the sixth. 



Six brown to black vertical bands, the sixth nai-row across the 

 tail near the base. The first more or less distinctly double, from 

 the nape through the eye, meeting its fellow of the opposite side on 

 the chest. Second over the edge of the opercle. Third, fourth and 

 fifth from the top of the doi-sal to the bottom of the anal. The 

 dorsal part of the fourth assuming more or less the form of a 

 blotch, the fifth interrupted in the middle of its hinder edge by a 

 large white edged black spot on the caudal peduncle. 



Length, 1 to 3 inches. Locality, Moreton Bay. 



