QUEENSLAND FISH KS.—McCULLOCH. 243- 



Localities. — This widely distributed species was included in Macleay's 

 Catalogue of Australian Fishes on the strength of an old collection specimen sup- 

 posed to have been collected in Australian waters. A straggler from warmer waters 

 was later recorded from Botany Bay, New South Wales, by Stead. A fine specimen 

 168 mm. long, which agrees with Bleeker's fig. 2, is in the Queensland Museum 

 collection from near the Capricorn group, Queensland. 



HEPATU3 OLIVACEUS Bloch & Schneider. 



Acanthurus epardi Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii, 1830, p. 147, pi. xxvii, fig. 1. 



Hepatus olivaceus (Bl. Schn.) Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. xxiii, i, 1905, p. 385,. 

 fig. 166. 



A large specimen, 249 mm. long to the end of the middle caudal rays, agrees 

 generally with Lesson's figure. The light shoulder-stripe extends backward to 

 below the second dorsal ray, and is broadly margined with black. 



This species has not been previously recognised from Australian waters. 

 The specimen was obtained near the Capricorn Group, Queensland. 



Family CIRRHITID.E. 



CIRRHITICHTHYS POLYACTIS Bleeker. 



Cirrhitichthys polyactis Bleeker, \'erh. Akad. Amsterdam xv, 1875, p. 16, and Atlas lehth. viii, . 



1877, p. 147, pi. cceliv, fig. 1. Id. Weber, Siboga Exped. Fische, Ivii, 1913, p. 259. 



D. x/17 ; A. iii/6 ; P. viii/6 ; V. i/5 ; C. 15. L. lat. 50 ; L. tr. 41-10. 



Depth (31 mm.) 2-6 in the length to the hypural joint (83) ; head (24) 3-4 in the 



same. Eye (7-5) 3-2 in the head ; snout (5) 1-5, interorbital width (5-5) 1-3 in the 



eye. 



Cheek-scales large, in 3^ rows. Lips broad, maxillary curved, reaching 



backward to below anterior fourth of eye. Anterior nostril with a fimbriate 

 appendage. Preoperculum strongly denticulated, the teeth largest above the 

 rounded angle. A small canine on each side of the premaxillaries anteriorly, and 

 an outer row of stronger teeth, followed by a band of villiform teeth which is 

 widest near the symphysis. Mandible with a strong canine on each side, followed 

 by a row of conical teeth ; a band of villiform teeth between the canines. A curved 

 band of minute teeth on the vomer, and a very small band on the anterior portion 

 of each palatine. 



Scales large, cycloid, and extending onto the bases of the vertical fins. 

 Lateral line almost straight, forming an oblique line from the shoulder to the base 

 of the caudal fin. Dorsal spines strong, each with a free membranous filament ; 

 the second is a little longer than the last, but is shorter than the anterior dorsal 

 rays. First dorsal ray filamentous, the others decreasing slightly in length back- 

 wards ; the base of the soft dorsal fin is a trifle longer than that of the spinous 

 portion. Second anal spine longer than the third. Simple pectoral rays abruptly 

 longer than the branched ones, the longest reaching backward to above the third anal 

 spine. Caudal emarglnate with the outer lobes produced into filaments. 



