BY CIIARLES W. DE VIS, M.A. 545 



oblique streaks descending backwards and on its lower side back- 

 wardly ascending streaks from a lower longitudinal stripe defining 

 the vertebral line above. 



Length, If inches. Locality, Queensland Coast. 



Equula nuchalis. Gth. 



Of this several Queensland examples are in the collection. Also 

 of Equula yerroides, Blk., Equula lineolata, Rup., and Gazza 

 equulceformis, Rup., all from Cape York. 



CyBIUM TIGRIS. 



D. 13, 4/13, IX. A. 4/14, IX. 



Teeth elongate, compressed, irregularly distant. The height of 

 the body is 4£ in the length to the end of the middle ray of the 

 caudal ; the length of the head 4|. The lateral line resumes a 

 straight course below the third finlet. Five distinct crossbands on 

 the fore part of the back, several others very indistinct on the 

 hinder part. Anterior portion of the spinous dorsal jet black, 

 pectoral dark grey. 



Locality, Cape York. Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent 



Percis stricticeps. 

 D. 5/21. A. 17. Lat. 69, about. Tr. 8/10. 



The height of the body is 6, the length of the head more than 4, 

 in the total length. Orbit 5-|, interorbit 1 2, snout 2f , in the length 

 of the head. The maxillary reaches the vertical from the fore 

 edge of the orbit. The opercular spine is small, rounded. The 

 spinous dorsal rises behind the base of the pectoral, the anal 

 opposite the sixth ray of the dorsal. The head is broad and 

 depressed above and below. The teeth of the lower jaw are four 

 very strong curved canines. The eyes very close together, and the 

 orbits sloping a little from the interorbit. Scales posteriorly 

 striated, with a very low median ridge. 



Colour (dry) smoky grey, marbled with dark grey on the back. 

 Ten dark bars on the body, descending from the mottling of the 



