NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUEENSLAND FISHES.— McCULLOCH. 53 



Colour. — Purplish brown on the upper half when fresh, the margins of 

 each scale lighter; lower portion changing to deep violet pink, the centre of 

 each scale darker and having a whitish vertical streak near its outer edge. Head 

 similar to the body, the cheeks with a greenish tinge. Dorsal and caudal pinkish 

 orange, the membrane between the rays dark purple. Pectoral, ventral, and 

 anal rays pink, the membrane darker. After preservation the fish is almost 

 uniformly purplish brown, the margins of the scales being lighter. 



Described and figured from a single specimen, 545 mm. long, which 

 differs in several of its characters from the very short description of Diacopus 

 superbus, particularly in the size of the eye, armature of the preoperculum, 

 .and form of the anal spines. Castelnau's type was taken in Moreton Bay, where 

 it was said to be known as the Red Bass, and was regarded as a good table-fish. 

 Mr. J. D. Ogilby has examined a copy of my description and figure, and informs 

 me that my fish is common on the Snapper-banks outside Moreton Bay, and is 

 often called Red Perch by Brisbane fishermen. 



This fish is very similar to Lutianus rub ens, Macleay, 3 but the scales of 

 that species are somewhat smaller, there being fifty on the lateral line between 

 the operculum and the hypural. The vomerine teeth form a A -shaped patch, 

 the anal fin is rounded anteriorly instead of angular, and the caudal is more 

 emarginate than in the specimen described above. 



Loc. — Near the mouth of the Clarence River, New South Wales. 



LUTIANUS AMABILIS, de Vis. 

 YELLOW-BANDED HUSSAR. 



(Plate XVIII.) 

 Genyoroge amdbilis, de Vis, Proe. Roy. Soc. Qld., i., 1884, p. 145. 



D. xi/14 ; A. iii/8 ; V. i/5 ; P. 17 ; C. 17. L. lat. 52. Height of body 2.7 in 

 the length from the snout to the hypural, and almost equal to the full length of 

 the head. Eye 2.1 in the snout, which is 2.4 in the head. Preorbital 4.1, fourth 

 dorsal spine nearly 3, and pectoral 1.12 in the head. 



Upper profile slightly concave on the snout, convex from above the eye 

 to the first dorsal spine. Upper portion of the head almost naked; three rows 

 of large scales on either side of the nape. Cheek scales in six rows. Maxillary 

 reaching backward to below the anterior third of the eye. Preopercular notch 

 •deep ; the posterior margin is minutely serrated, the lower angle produced 

 somewhat backward and finely serrated. Operculum unarmed, its hinder lobe 

 pointed. 



3 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, viii., 1883, p. 232. 



