200 notes on a collection of fishes from queensland, 



Percice. 



1. Lates Darwiniensis. Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, K S. Wales, Yol. 2 p. 345. 



This fish was only found in Lillesmere Lagoon, a large sheet 



of fresh water on the Lower Burdekin, communicating with the 



river only in high floods. Probably this fish sometimes goes to 



the sea. 



2. Pseudolates cavifrons. All. & Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, K S. Wales, Yol. 1, p. 262, PL 3. 



Hab. Lillesmere Lagoon, and in salt water, Lower Burdekin. 



It is said to attain a gigantic size. 



3. Serranus estuarius. n. sp. 

 D. 11/14, A. 3/8. L. lat. 70. 

 Head considerably longer than the height of the body ; space 

 between the eyes slightly convex, and more than the diameter of 

 the orbit, distance of snout from eye about the same. The teeth 

 are not large, the lower jaw projects slightly, the maxillary extends 

 behind the vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. The 

 prseoperculum is roughly toothed at the angle, the operculum is 

 armed with two spines, the tail is rounded. Colour brownish 

 with numerous large spots and blotches of darker brown ; fins dark, 

 all with large whitish spots, except the pectorals. One specimen, 

 length 16 inches, taken in the Mary River, but evidently a salt 

 water fish. It closely resembles Serranus Salmonoides. Cur & Yal. 



4. Apogonichthys Gillii. Steind. 

 Macl. Cat. Fishes, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Yol. 5, p. 347. 

 Burdekin River, a fresh water fish, found also in Cox's River, 

 N. S. Wales. 



5. Oligorus Macquariensis. Cur. & Yal. 

 Macl. Cat. Fishes Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Yol. 5, p. 352. 

 Mary River. I cannot detect any difference between this fish 

 and the well known " Cod " of our western rivers. 



