210 RECORDS OP THE AUSTnALTAN MUSEUM. 



Habits. — This brilliant little fish is not uncommon among the brandies 

 of living madrepores on the Queensland Coast. Macleay found specimens 

 in the innermost recesses of dead coral at Darnley Island, where, he 

 considered, they had probably been born, though this conclusion seems to 

 be unwarranted. They are always covered with a very thick mucous in 

 which are closely packed granules resembling ova, though their micro- 

 scopic structure appeal's to differ from that of true eggs. 



Locx. — Darnley Island, Torres Strait ; cotypes of G. verticalis. 

 Murray Island, Torres Strait ; coll. Hedley & McCulloch. Endeavour 

 River, Cooktown ; Macleay Museum, as G. uiiicolor (Castl.), Macleay. 

 Green Island, off Cairns. North West Island, off Port Cuitis ; coll. 

 H. Burrell. 



GoBiODON QCiNQUESTRiCATUP, Ciivler .V Vulericieitnes. 



(Fig. 4.) 



Gobim quinquestrigatus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 

 1837, p. 134. ■ 



Gobiodon quinquestrigatns, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, 

 p. 61. Id., Weber, " Siboga " Exped., Ivii., 1913, p. 454 (synonymy). 



D. vi/11; A. 9 ; P. 18; V. i/5 ; C. 17. Depth before the ventrals 

 2'8 in the length to the hypural joint; head 3'5 in the same. Eye 4 in 

 the head and subequal to the snout ; interocular width 1'3 in the eye. 

 Depth of the caudal peduncle 12 in its length. Breadth before the 

 pectoral base 2-1 in the height. 



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Fiji. 4. Gobiodon t|uinciiiestriK;itus. 



Head longer than deep, compressed ; upper profile very convex, chin 

 prominent. Nostrils tubular, the jtosterior placed just before the eye. 

 A series of six large tubular pores extends around the preopercular border 

 to behind tlie eye ; two others are on the interorbital space, and a pair 

 between the nostrils. Microscopic papillae are present on the lower pre- 

 opercular maigin, beneath the eye, and around the niontli to below the 

 lower lif). Interorbital space a little convex. Mouth slightly oblique, the 

 maxilla extending to below the anterior half i)f the eye ; mandible not 

 quite so long as the upper jaw. Each jaw with a narrow band of villiform 



