G86 NEW FISHES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 



canines. Head broader than high, J longer than broad. Mouth 

 neai'ly horizontal, cheeks swollen. Maxillary reaching the posterior 

 third of the eye. No nuchal crest. Pectoral with silk-like rays. 

 Dorsal spines produced into short filaments. No barbels. Uniform 

 smokey grey, lighter on the hinder portion of the trunk. Fins 

 black. A broad dark curved streak across the base of the pectoral 

 having a pale one distad of it. A fine black line from the angle of 

 the mouth over the opercles. 



Locality, Moreton Bay. Collected by Mr. G. Watkins, Dunwich. 



GOBIUS STIGMATICUS 



D. 6, 1/8. A. 8. Lat. 37. Tr. 12. 

 The height of the body is 5^, the length of the head 4^ in the 

 total length. Snout and interorbit each 2| in the length of the 

 head. Caudal short rounded. No canine teeth. Head longer 

 than high and longer than broad. Interorbit broad and flat. Snout 

 short. Preopercle uot armed. Jaws equal. Scales smaller 

 anteriorly than posteriorly. No silk-like pectoral rays. Yellowish 

 brown with a median line of dark spots posteriorly, or in addition 

 to them blotches beneath the base of the soft dorsal. A dark 

 curved line on each side of the occiput, touching the orbit and 

 descending on the operculum to join a line descending from the 

 lower edge of the orbit. A third line from the front edge of the 

 orbit to the maxillary is continued thence on the preopercle from 

 the angle of the mouth. These lines are sometimes confused into 

 a brown patch on the cheek. The occipital arch may also be absent. 

 First dorsal black, second pale with a median row of black spots on 

 the webs. Anal pale. All these with white edges. 



Locality, Moreton Bay. Collected by Mr. G. Watkins. 



GOBIUS MARGINALIS. 



D. 6, 1/9. A. 9. L. 35. Tr. 11. 

 The height of the body is G, the length of the head A\ in the 

 total length. Orbit 4, snout 3f, interorbit 5 in the length of the 

 head. Breadth of the head \, and depth \ less than its length. 



