FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 145 



uniform and arranged in a narrow band. They are somewhat 

 larger on the vomer, and forrn two widely separated, rather 

 elongate patches which are broader in front than behind. 

 Palatines each with a long narrow band, the anterior teeth the 

 largest. Tongue spatulate, truncate or emarginate anteriorly. 



Body covered with moderately large ctenoid scales which 

 extend forward onto the operculum, and postorbital portion of 

 the preoperculuni. The scales of the lateral line are raised but 

 not enlarged ; the anterior eight to fifteen bear very small 

 spines. There are fifty-two rows above the lateral line, but they 

 are more numerous below it owing to the interpolation of an 

 extra row between each of the others anteriorly. There are 

 five scales between the lateral line and the first dorsal spine. 



Origin of the first dorsal fin between the ends of the opercles. 

 First spine separated from the others and only joined to the base 

 of the second by membrane ; the other spines are weak, and the 

 third is the longest. Second dorsal ray longest, the others 

 gradually decreasing in length. Anal commencing a little 

 behind, and terminating well behind the second dorsal ; its rays 

 are shorter than those of that fin, and they gradually increase in 

 height to the penultimate one. Caudal broadly rounded. 

 Ventral reaching to the second or third anal ray ; the spine is 

 weak, and the inner ray is simple. Pectoral broadly rounded : 

 the fourth or fifth upper ray is the longest, and reaches to a 

 little behind the middle of the first dorsal. 



Colour in, formalin. — Greyish or brownish above, white 

 below. Back with four dark cross-bands, of which the first is 

 very broad and corresponds with the base of the first dorsal, or 

 it may be indistinctly divided into two. The next two are 

 narrower, and cross the base of the second dorsal, and the third 

 is on the caudal peduncle. Lips and cheeks with brown cross- 

 hair, the most prominent of which is a broad double one below 

 the eye. All the fins, with the exception of the anterior part of 

 the anal, bear oblique rows of large brown spots. 



Described from ten specimens, 139-206 mm. long, from off 

 Hervey Bay, Queensland. The largest example is selected as 

 the type. 



Locs. — In all, thirty-three specimens were preserved from the 

 following localities in Queensland. 



Near Bowen. 



Hummocky Island, S^'E., seven miles; July 30, L910. 



Thirteen miles S. East from Cape Capricorn ; .Inly 20, 1910. 



Off Hervey Bay; July 27, 1910. 



