386 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, 



short description requiring emendment is the statement " scales 

 of the cheeks in one infraorbital series." These " scales " are 

 merely small quadrangular spaces enclosed by series of pores 

 descending from the eye, and are shown in Quoy and Gaimard's 

 figure. 



L. mtdigena was described from the Barrier Reef, Queensland. 

 As Platyglossus trimaadatus, Knerhas recorded it from Sydney, 

 but, as Ogilby has pointed out, this is almost certainly incorrect. 

 Specimens are in the Australian Museum from Murray Island, 

 Torres Strait (Coll. Hedley & McCulloch) ; Green Island, off 

 Cairns (Coll. Hedley) ; Hood Bay, New Guinea (Coll. Goldie), 

 and Samoa (Coll. Jordan). 



Family PTEROPSARID^E. 

 Genus Parapercis, Sleeker, 



Parapercis, Bleeker, Nat. Tyd. Dierk., iv., 1872, p. 127 (P. 

 cylindrica, Bloch.). 



Gh'lias, Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Q'land, xxiii.,: 1910, p. 40 (C. 

 stricticeps, de Vis). 



Having compared a specimen of Ghilias stricticeps, de \ is, 

 received from Mr. J. D. Ogilby, with another of Parapercis 

 cylindrica, Bloch, I fail to find any generic differences between 

 them. Ogilby has described the head of C. stricticeps as 

 depressed, but it is normally of the subcorneal form of Parapercis, 

 although in my specimen the gill-covers and membranes are 

 expanded laterally as often happens in fishes killed in formalin. 

 He also states that the lower jaw is without villiform teeth, 

 whereas there is really a broad band near the symphysis behind 

 the canines. These, and all the other characters relied upon to 

 distinguish Chilias are exactly as in Parapercis. 



I'. stricticeps is closely allied to /'. hexophthalma, Cuv. and 

 Val., of which 1 have :i specimen from Murray Island. Torres 

 Strait, but differs in having a much longer lower jaw, narrower 

 interorbital, and smaller eye. as well as in its colour-marking. 



Family GOBI IDJl. 



E v i o t a v i rid is, Waite. 



AUogdbius viridia Waite. Rec. Austr. Mas., v., t904, p. 177. 

 pi. xxiii., fig. 3. 



