EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 75 



222 millim. (fide McCulloeh in lit.) in the neighbourhood of Cape Grenville, 

 N.Q., in 1875. these subsequently becoming the types of Alleyne and ]\lacleay'.s 

 species. From that time until quite lately this interesting trevally was wholly 

 lost sight of, the only reference to it between 1877 and the present time being 

 that in Kent's " Classified List of Queensland Food Fishes," 21 a production of 

 which the less said the better. Nevertheless Kent, though unknowingly, must 

 have obtained specimens somewhere on the coast, since he publishes an unmis- 

 takable photograph of it on plate xlvii of the work referred to under the name of 

 Caranx nobilis Maeleay, a species to which it has not the remotest resemblance. 

 During the second cruise of the F.I.S. "Endeavour" in Queensland waters this 

 species was met with thrice, namely, at Pine Peak 2 - 21 examples, off Cape 

 Gloucester 6, and in Edgecombe Bay 204 on a fine sand and mud bottom at a 

 depth of from 25 to 14 fathoms. 



Range: — East Coasts of Middle and South Queensland. 



Dimensions: — To at least 235 millim. 



Illustration: — Taken from the Townsville example referred to above. 

 Eeg. Xo. I. 13/1483. 



CITULA GRACILIS sp. nov. 



COACH-WHIP TREVALLY. 



(Plate XXIII.) 



Typi locality: — Darnley Island. 



Body deeply elliptical and compressed, the dorsal contour much more 

 arched than the ventral and evenly rounded from the occiput to the peduncle ; 

 ventral contour feebly rounded and declivous to the ventral fins, between which 

 and the anal it is slightly emarginate; width of body about half its depth, 

 which is 3-05 in its length and one fifth more than the length of the head ; 

 abdominal region rather long, its length 1-35 in that of the anal fin; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 1-35 in its width, which equals the eye-diameter. Head rather 

 small, its upper surface from the tip of the snout to the nape linear and moder- 

 ately acclivous, its length 3-68 in that of the body; width of head 1-7 in its 

 depth, which is 1-1 in its length; crania-nuchal keel little developed. Eye small, 

 its diameter 4-05 in the length of the head, 1-35 in that of the snout; adipose 

 lid not nearly reaching the pupil in front or behind; interorbital region convex, 

 its width a little more than the eye-diameter. Lower jaw slightly projecting; 

 maxillary extending to below the anterior border of the pupil, its length 2-6 in 

 that of the head, the width of its distal extremity 1 -25 in its distance from the 

 eye and 2-05 in the eye-diameter. Membranous border of preopercle finely 

 crenulate. 



- 1 See "Great Barrier Eeef , " Appendix A, pp. 369, 370. 

 :: An outlier of the Percy Islands in lat. 21.5 S. 



