■_:r.' MEiJOins OF THE QUEEySLAND MUSEUM. 



Family SPARID^E. 

 Genus ARGYROPS Swainson. 



Argyrops Swainson. Nat. Hist. Class. Fish, &c., ii, 1839, p. 221 [spinifer). 



The similarity of Argijrops and Pagrosomus Gill has been noted by Jordan 

 and Thompson (Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus. xli, 1912, p. 575). Having compared the 

 genotypes of both genera, I find that they can only be separated by the following 

 characters : — 



(I. Two rows of largo teeth on each side of the upper jaw, and an inner row of much smaller ones. 

 b. Dor-sal spines filamentous ; depth of the body greater than half its length to the hypural 



joint Argyrops 



bb. Dorsal spines not produced ; depth of the body less than half its length to the hypural 

 joint . . . . • • • • • ■ • • • • • • • ■ • • Pagrosomus. 



ARGYROPS SPINIFER Forskal. 

 Sparus sptnifer Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. .32. Id. Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. viii, 1877, p. 109, 



pi. 213, fig. 3. 

 Pagrus spinifer Day, Fish. India, 187.5, p. 138, pi. xxxiii, fig. 5. Id. Kent, Gt. Barrier Reef, 1893, 



pp. 285 and 369, pi. xliv, fig. 2. 



A specimen, 144 mm. long to the hypural joint, forwarded for identification 

 by the Director of the Queensland Museum, differs from a smaller Indian example 

 only in minor details. The second to the sixth dorsal spines are filamentous, the 

 former reaching Avell beyond the hypural joint. Its general colour appears to have 

 been pink with somewhat darker crossbars. 



Locality. — The species has been recorded from Port Denison by Kent. This 

 specimen was secured at Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland. 



Family CH.^TODONTID^. 

 H0LACANTHU3, CHS:rODONrOPLU3, C0N3PICILLATUS Waite. 

 Holacanthus conspicillatus Waite, Rec. Austr. 3Ius. iii, 7, 1900, p. 203, pi. xxxv. 



Ogilby's record of H. conspicillatus from Queensland (Mem. Qld. Mus. iii, 

 1915. p. 114) was based upon specimens properly referable to H. personifer 

 McCulloch. He regarded the two as synonymous, but a comparison of five specimens 

 of personifer with three of conspicillatus shows no intermediate forms, although 

 the former varies considerably in its colour-marking. 



A fine example, 205 mm. long, agrees in all details with Waite's types from 

 Lord Howe Island. It was obtained near the Capricorn Group, Queensland. 



Family HEPATID.F]. 



ZANCLUS CANE3CENS Linne. 



Zunclus caneicens and Z. cornutus (Linn) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. ix, 1878, pp. 77-78, pi. 366, figs. 



1-3. 

 Zandus ccrnutus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales v, 1881, p. 548. Id. Stead, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales xxxiv, 1909, p. 274. 



