THBEE NEW QUEENSLAND FISHES.— OGILBY. 303 



Upper surface and sides pale brown, lower surface plumbeous, the whole 

 densely spotted and streaked with black. Chin and maxillary grey, the former 

 black dotted. Rostral spine and tentacle with alternating rings of black and 

 white, the latter much the wider in the spinous portion ; frontal and occipital 

 spines and filaments blackish, the membranes hyaline ; rays of soft dorsal 

 pale brown, the membranes hyaline sparsely spotted with brown. Caudal 

 similar to soft dorsal, the outer ray above and below with alternate lighter and 

 darker rings. Anal rays blackish, the membranes hyahne, blotched and spotted 

 with black. Upper edge of pseudobrachium like the sides, lower edge grey. 

 Pectoral and ventral lavender, sparsely black-dotted. 



Known only from the type, which measures 81 mm., and was presented 

 to the Queensland Museum by IVIr. F. G. M. Appel, who obtained it in Wide 

 Bay. Reg. No. I. 3183. 



POMACENTRID.^. 



CHROMIS VIRESCENS sp. nov. 



(Plate XIX, Fig. 3.) 



Green Puller. 



Type locality. — Hervey Bay, South Queensland. 



Body slender, its width 1-84 in its depth, which is 2-67 in its length and 

 one-fourth more than the length of the head, the ventral contour more arched 

 than the dorsal. Caudal peduncle a httle longer than deep, its least depth 2-5 

 in the length of the head. Head about four-ninths deeper than wide, its fronto- 

 occipital profile linear and but httle accUvous, merging almost insensibly into 

 the nuchal convexity, its width 1-22 in its length, which is 3-6 in that of the 

 body. Snout pointed, 1-3 in the eye-diameter and 3-8 in the length of the 

 head. Diameter of eye 2-85 in the same. Preorbital narrow, its width 2-5 in 

 the eye diameter. Interorbital region moderate and convex, its width equal to 

 or a little more than the eye. Nostril round, nearer to the eye than to the 

 tip of the snout. Cleft of mouth subvertical, the angle not reaching lower 

 border of the eye. Maxillary extending to below the nostril, its length 3-44 

 in that of the head. Preopercle rough but not serrated, the hinder border 

 directed upwards and backwards ; opercle with a single spine. 



Teeth in the jaws short, blunt, and conical, in several series anteriorly, 

 the outer row somewhat enlarged. 



Scales along the middle of the body, from the opercle to the root of 

 the caudal, 30 ; number of tubes on the lateral line 20 or 21 ; four scales 

 on the cheek below the eye. Accessory scale of ventral long, 3-9 in the length 

 of the head. 



