QUEENSLAND FISHES.— McCULLOC'M. 171 



Median dorsal spines highest, the others decreasing slightly in length 

 backwards ; the rays increase again to the ninth, which is longer than the longest 

 spine. The margin of the dorsal fin is slightly sinnous between the spines, and 

 obtusely pointed posteriorly. Anal similar in form to the soft dorsal. Pectoral 

 rounded, the fifth upper ray longest. Ventrals rounded, without produced rays, 

 and reaching backwards to the vent. Caudal forked. 



Colour. — Yellow, with blue spots, the fins darker. The body is much 

 lighter than the fins after preservation, and the scales have olivaceous markings 

 wliich combine to form the pattern illustrated in the accompanying figure. Two 

 dark stripes cross the preorbital, 07ie extending under the eye, and the cheeks 

 and opercles are marked with dark spots and short lines. A large blackish spot 

 at the upper base of the pectoral. Vertical fins slate-coloured in formaline; 

 the dorsal and anal have narrow white borders followed by a very narrow 

 darker line, and there is a blackish .spot between the anal spines; a dark horizontal 

 line extends along the soft portion of each. Caudal with irregular rows of grey 

 spots. Pectorals and ventrals whitish. 



Described and figured from a specimen lOiS mm. long, which was taken 

 by the Queensland State trawler around the Capricorn Group, Queensland, in 

 25-30 fathoms. Two others taken with it exhibit some little variation in the 

 degree of colour-marking on the fins, and one bears indications of blue spots 

 Oil each scale ; the extreme outer rays of the caudal fin may also be light-coloured. 



Synonymy. — An examination of the two typical specimens of Pomacentrus 

 dolii ]\[acleay, in the Macleay ^luseum, proves them to be similar in all details 

 to the example described above. They Avere found in a large Dolium shell in 

 Port Jackson, and were doubtless mere stragglers southward from the warmer 

 waters of Queensland. 



DAYA JERDONI, var. FUSCA, var. nov. 

 (Plate IX, fig. 2.) 



A series of twenty-one specimens, 59-104 ram. long, which were trawled 

 by the F.I.V. "Endeavour" in Queensland waters, includes several specimens 

 which cannot be separated from those described above; also others which differ 

 somewhat in both form and colour, and others which are intermediate between 

 the two. In a specimen 99 mm. long, which is figured on the accompanying 

 plate, the depth at the ventrals is 2-4 in the length to the hypural joint. The 

 body is brown like the vertical fins, and each scale bears a basal darker (blue) 

 spot. The dark lines on the dorsal and anal are wanting in this specimen, but 

 are indicated in another somewhat larger example. The outer rays of the caudal 

 fin are whitish like the margins of the dorsal and anal. 



Although the two forms illustrated differ in their general appearance, 

 ihey are evidently specifically identical, since other specimens are intermediate 

 between them, and can be as readily assigned to the one as the other. 



