QUEENSLAND FISHES.— McCULLOCH. 245 



bb. Body withovit distinct cross-bands ; a dark ocellus below origin of dorsal, 



indistinct in large specimens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bennetti, 



cm. Body with one, sometimes two, dark longitudinal bands from snout to tail, 

 and extending along upper and lower margins of caudal fin. 



d. Back and snotit closely covered with dark lines and spots, the lower parts with 



or without many blue spots . . . . . . . . . . • • ■ • callisternus^ 



CANTHIGASTER CINCTUS (Richardson) .lord. & Everm. 

 (PI. XIV, fig. 1.) 

 ? Tetrodon cinctus Richardson, Zool. Samarang, Fishes, 1848, p. 20. 

 Canthigaster cinctus Jordan and Evermann, Bull U.S. Fish Comm. xxiii i, 1905, p. 433, fig. 189. 



A beautifully preserved specimen, 131 mm. long, agrees with Jordan and 

 Evermann's figure quoted above, and differs from C. valentini in the disposition 

 of its dark cross-bands. It is from near the Capricorn Group, Queensland. 



CANTHIGASTER VALENTINI Bleeker. 

 Tropidichtkys valentini Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. iv, 1853, p. 130. 

 Canthogaster valentyni Bleeker, Atla? Ichth. v, 1885, p. 80, pi. ccviii, fig. 1. 

 Canthigaster valentini McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales xxxvi-3, 1911, p. 423. 



Two specimens, collected at Murray Island, Torres Strait, were recorded 

 by McCulloch. 



CANTHIGASTER BENNETH Bleeker. 

 Tetrodon oceUatus Bennett, Fish Ceylon, 1828-30, pi. xxi (name preoccupied). 

 Tropidichthys bennetti Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. vi, 1854, p. 504. 

 Canthogaster oceUatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. v, 1865, p. 80, pi. ccxiv, fig. 5. 

 Canthigaster bennetti McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales xxxvi, 1911, p. 305. 



Several specimens from Murray Island, Torres Strait, were recorded .by 

 McCulloch. 



CANTHIGASTER CALLISTERNUS Ogilby. 

 Tetrodon callisternus Ogilby, Mem. Aust. Mus. ii, 1889, p. 74, pi. iii, fig. 5. 

 Eumycterias callisternus Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. i, 1912, p. 62. 



Recorded from Southport, Queensland, by Ogilby. Several specimens of 

 various sizes are in the Australian Museum from Lord Howe Island. 



