NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUEENSLAND FISHES.— McCULLOCH. 51 



Described and figured from a specimen, 62 mm. long, in the collection of 

 the Australian Museum. It was received in exchange from the Queensland 

 Museum as a co-type of Onar nebulosum, de Vis, and I have no doubt that it is 

 one of the original specimens. But it proves the description of the species to be 

 very inaccurate, the dorsal formula being iii/27 instead of ii/17, while the height 

 is 3.8 instead of 4^ in the total length. Four other specimens, 45-78 mm. long, 

 are in the old collection of the Australian Museum, one of which is from Duke 

 of York Island, and the others are without data. The larger ones differ from 

 the co-type in having some of the ventral rays filamentous and reaching the 

 i origin of the anal. The number of enlarged canines in the anterior part of each 

 .jaw varies from one to three pairs. D. iii/25-27 ; A. iii/14-15. 



Loc. — Murray Island, Torres Strait. Duke of York Island, New Britain. 



Family PLESIOPITm 

 Genus BELONEPTERYGION, gen. nov. 



Body moderately elongate, compressed, covered with large ctenoid scales. 

 Three lateral lines, the first near the back, the second along the middle of the 

 side, and the third above the base of the anal fin. Dorsal about xviii/6, anal 

 about x/5 ; ventral i/2. Head naked, with rows of mucif erous canals and pores 

 surrounding the eye, and extending along the margin of the preorbital and 

 preoperculum ; others cross the nape, and there are some pores on the under 

 surface of the mandible. Bands of minute teeth on the jaws, and two groups on 

 the vomer; palatines and tongue toothless. 



Type. — Acantlioclinus fasciolatus, Ogilby. 



This genus is very similar to Acantlioclinus, Jenyns, 1 but differs in 

 having no palatine teeth, and the scales are large and ctenoid instead of minute 

 and cycloid. It is apparently also related to Acanthoplesiops, 2 but that genus 

 has only one lateral line. 



BELONEPTERYGION FASCIOLATUM, Ogilby. 

 Acanthoclinus Uttoreus vel fasciolatus, Ogilby, Mem. Anstr. Mus., ii., 1889, p. 63, pi. iii., fig. 3. 

 zLcanthoclinus Utoreus, Waite, Eee. Austr. Mus., v., pt. 3, 1904, pp. 184, 225. Id., McCulloch, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxv., 1910, p. 431. Id., Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., ii., 1913, 



p. 92 (nee. Jenyns). 



Having compared specimens of this species with a New Zealand example 



•of Acanthoclinus Utoreus, Jenyns, I find generic differences between them as 



noted above. There is a remarkable resemblance in the colour-marking of the 



two, though the body-colour of B. fasciolatum varies from light brown with dark 



cross-bars to deep black. 



1 Jenyns, Zool. " Beagle," iii., 1841, p. 91. 



2 Began, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xii., 1913, p. 114. 



