48 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS NOViE-HOLLANDLE, Steindachner. 

 (Plate XVI, Fig. 1.) 



Pseudochromis novCB-hollandice, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Lsxx. i., 1879, p. 160. 

 i Polyacanthus queenslandice, Kent, Gt. Barrier Eeef , 1893, p. 308, pi. xvi., fig. 8. 



D. iii/37 ; A. iii/20 ; P. 18 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. L. lat. 42-43+12 ; L. tr. 20. Head 

 8.5, depth before the ventrals 3.3 in the length to the hypural. Snout 1.3, 

 interorbital space 1.8 in the eye, which is 3.3 in the head. Third dorsal spine 

 3.3, third last dorsal ray 1.4 in the head. Third last anal ray 1.3, pectoral 1.1, 

 ventral 1.3 in the head. 



Body compressed, broadest at the operculum. Head blunt, the upper 

 profile convex from the snout to the anterior portion of the dorsal fin. Caudal 

 peduncle very broad and compressed. Head with several series of mucous canals 

 extending around the eyes, along the margins of the preorbital, preoperculum, 

 and tip of opercular lobe. Two other series descend obliquely backwards from 

 the side of the nape, the first to above the preoperculum and the second to the 

 origin of the lateral line. Mandible with three pores on each side below. Nostrils 

 almost on the upper surface of the snout, the anterior tubular, the posterior an 

 open pore. Maxillary nearly reaching to below the middle of the eye. 



Teeth cardiform, in a single series on the sides of the upper jaw; a band 

 of villiform teeth anteriorly, with one or two strong canines on each side of the 

 symphysis. The teeth of the lower jaw are similarly arranged, but the lateral 

 ones increase in size towards the middle of each ramus. A large patch of 

 villiform teeth on the vomer, and a smaller one on each palatine. 



Body covered with moderately large, ctenoid scales, which extend forward 

 to the interorbital space, and on the sides of the head. They are arranged in 

 about six rows on the cheek, and are very large and irregular on the operculum. 

 The bases of the dorsal and anal fins are protected by a low sheath of scales, 

 and the basal half of the caudal is similarly covered. Lateral line rising rapidly 

 from the operculum towards the back, with which it runs parallel to below the 

 twenty-eighth dorsal ray; it is separated from the base of the dorsal by two 

 scales. Six or seven rows below its termination it recommences, and extends 

 along the middle of the caudal peduncle. There are forty -nine rows of scales 

 between the upper end of the gill-opening and the hypural joint. 



Dorsal fin originating above the operculum. The spines and anterior 

 rays increase rapidly in height, but those of the remainder of the fin are subequal 

 in length, increasing only slightly to the third last; the latter reaches the end 

 of the first third of the caudal when adpressed. Anal similar to the dorsal. 

 Pectoral rounded, the seventh ray longest, and not quite reaching the verticle 

 of the vent. Ventrals elongate, pointed, inserted below the anterior base of 

 the pectoral. Caudal pointed. 



