NEW FISHES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



No. 3. 



By Charles W. De Vis, M.A. 



Neoniphon hasta. 



D. 11-1/12. A. 3/7. Lat. 40. Tr. 10. 



The height of the body is 3 barely, the length of the head 2f in 

 the length s.c. Orbit 2f , interorbit and snout 4 each in the length, 

 of the head. Second dorsal spine -J of the height of the body ; 2nd 

 anal spine * nearly of the same. Profile much more convex above 

 than below. Caudal peduncle long, narrow, tapering. Lower jaw 

 the longer. Second and third dorsal spines longest and equal. 

 Second anal spine much the longest and strongest. All the bones of 

 of the head serrated, the preorbital strongly. Two long spines 

 overlying each other on the angle of the preopercle. Opercle 

 crenulated with two short flat spines. Interorbit with two feeble 

 ridges. Frontal with radiating grooves. Caudal bilobed. Scales 

 strongly ctenoid. 



Colour (dry) yellowish brown, an obscure longitudinal stripe from 

 the occiput to the caudal. A large black blotch on the 1st to 4th 

 dorsal webs above. 



Length, 3f inches. Locality, Queensland. 



The differences between this and iT. armatus are, fewer anal rays 

 and a longer spine, a much longer caudal peduncle, shorter snout 

 and opercular spines and a higher body. 



Polynemus multiradialus, Gth., ascends the Brisbane River. 



