BY CHARLES W. DE VIS, M.A. 459 



Colour, (dry) mottled grey : some of the scales white, some 

 dark centred. Top of the head chesnut brown ; soft dorsal with 

 traces of pale spots. Pectoi-al, pale straw colour ; axil, black, 

 with the black extending on the upper edge of the base of the 

 pectoral. 



Colour, (recent) top of the head nearly greenish blue. Upper 

 half of the rays of the so*ft dorsal, green ; the webs reticulated 

 with brown, outer rays of caudal red, passing into golden yellow 

 near the tip of the upper lobe ; tip white, medians rays tipped 

 with black; on the body about twenty longitudinal golden streaks. 

 Many scales of the middle of the trunk with pearly streaks. 

 General tint bluish on the upper, yellowish on the lower parts. 

 Sides of the head yellowish, with two blue streaks from the orbit 

 to the rictus ; rictus within vermilion. Base of pectoral rays 

 yellow. 



Length, 15 inches. Locality, "Wide Bay. 



Centropogon nitexs. 

 D. 14 10. A. 3/5. Lat. ? Tr. £. 



The height of the body is 4, and the length of the head to the 

 tip of the opercular spine 3|, in the total length. Orbit and 

 interorbit 5, snout 4, in the length of the head. The third 

 dorsal spine reaches from the tip of the snout to the hinder edge 

 of the orbit. The dorsal notched, the last spme being two-thirds 

 of the second ray which is longer than the second spine. The 

 pectoral is narrow and does not reach to the end of the ventral. 

 The ventral anal and dorsal webs deeply scalloped. Scales very 

 distinct, each with three strise converging from the base towards 

 the margin. Armature of head normal. Colour seems to have 

 been yellow on the body, the stria? of the scales giving them a 

 bright glistening appearance. Middle of spinous dorsal blackish, 

 top of soft dorsal and hinder half of caudal black ; ventral 

 marbled with black. 



Length, 8i inches. Locality, Queensland Coast. 



