BEFIEW OF THE QUEENSLAND P0MACANTMINM.—J0G1LBY. 103 



Range: — From the East Coast of Queensland northward to the Caroline 

 Group and eastward to the Paumotu Archipelago. 



Cuvier and Valenciennes first gave a place in literature to this species 

 from drawings by Mertens and Parkinson, the former's subject having been 

 taken at Ulea (Ullie Island), one of the Carolines, the latter 's at Tahiti in the 

 Society Group, but the descriptions (if such they can be called) taken from 

 these sources, under the names II. flavissimus and H. luteolus, are valueless, and 

 might very well have been disregarded. The species does not appear to have 

 been noticed again until 1860, in which year Griinther (1), as H. cyanotis, gave 

 the first recognizable description from a specimen collected by Macgillivray at 

 Aneiteum, New Hebrides. Within the next decade it received two new names 

 from Kner and Peters respectively, the former describing a young example from 

 Raiatea, Society Group, as H. monophthalmus, the latter somewhat vaguely from 

 the "South Seas" as H. ocularis, while Kner in the same year reported his fish 

 from Savai, Samoa. Some years later Gunther (2) added the Paumotu Archi- 

 pelago, Hervey and Kingsmill Islands, and the Fiji Group to the known locali- 

 ties, and at a still later date de Vis gave it yet another name, describing it 

 from the Queensland Coast as 77. sphinx. Finally Jordan and Scale recorded it 

 as being "rather common about the coral reefs of Samoa," but were unable to 

 add any further localities to its distribution. 



Dimensions : — A small species, not exceeding 100 millim. in total length. 



Remarks: — Described from one of the Queensland specimens, measuring 

 81 millim., and in but moderate condition. The other example has been ruined 

 by bad mounting. This pretty little species is easily separable from the other 

 Queensland pomacanthins by its symmetrical head and holocentriform habit. 



HOLACANTHUS BICOLOR (Bloch). 



Color -sousounan Renard, Poiss. Moluques, i, 1718, pi. xix, fig. 106. 



IJcan Batoe-roepa-salong Valentyn, Amboina, iii, 1724, fig. 244. 



Chcetodon bicolor Bloch, Ausl. Fisch., iii, 1785, pi. 206, fig. 1 : East Indies ; Bonnaterre, Encycl. 

 Meth., Ichth., p. 93, pi. xcvii, fig. 397 ; Schneider, Bloch Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 218. 



Holacanlhus bicolor Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, pp. 527, 533, 536; Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 1831, p. 168 ; Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., v, 1853, p. 

 77 ; id., Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl., viii, 1860, Sumatra, p. 26 ; Gunther, Brit. Mus. Catal. 

 Fish., ii, 1860, p. 50 ; Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., i, 1863, pp. 234, 252 ; id., Versl. 

 Akad. Amsterdam, xvi, 1864, p. 360 ; id., Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., ii, 1865, pp. 100, 190, 

 287 ; id., Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) vii, 1873, p. 39 ; Gunther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, pt. 2, 

 1874, p. 51, pi. xxxix, fig. B ; Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, xvii, 1877, Chaet., p. 127 ; 

 id., Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., xii, 1877, p. 22 ; id., Atlas Ichth., ix, 1877, p. 61, pi. ccclxix, 

 fig. 3 ; id., Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., xiii, 1878, p. 45 ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 vii, pt. 2, 1882, p. 244 ; id., ibid., viii, pt. 2, 1883, p. 263 ; de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, ix, pt. 3, 1884, p. 457; Weber, Semon Zool. Forsch., 1895, p. 264; Jordan & 

 Seale, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fisher., xxv, 1905, p. 348 ; iid., ibid., xxvi, 1906, p. 34 ; Jordan 

 & Richardson, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fisher., xxvii, 1907, p. 269; iid., Bur. Sci. Manila, i, 

 1910, p. 41. 



