REVIEW OF THE QUEENSLAND POMACANTHINJE.—OGILBT. 105 



contiguous part of the dorsal; rest of trunk and head, membrane of the anterior 

 dorsal spines, pectorals, ventrals, caudal, and adjoining - strip of the peduncle 

 golden yellow; a broad blue-black arcuate band between the eyes, continue:! 

 across the cheek as an obscure dull blue evanescent band ; lips and chin dull blue ; 

 dorsal, anal, ventral, and preopercular spines bluish-white. 



Etymology: — Latin: bicolor, of two colors. 



Reg. Xo. in Queensland Museum of specimens described: — I. 14/1840-1. * 



Measurements of a typical Queensland example: — See p. 116. 



Range: — Malay Archipelago eastward to Samoa. 2 



Through some confusion with the AVest Indian Holacanthus tricolor 

 Bloch and his immediate followers gave the distribution of this species as " les 

 deux Indes," a mistake which was not corrected until the publication by Valen- 

 ciennes of the seventh volume of the "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons." It 

 was not obtained by Cantor in Malaysia, but Bleeker records it from numerous 

 localities — Sumatra. Flores, Solor, Amboina, Ternate, Ceram, Saparoea. Banda. 

 Arou, and New Guinea! To these Gunther added the Solomon and Navigator 

 Groups, from the latter of which .Jordan and Scale also received it. Macleay 

 recorded it from Port Moresby, British New 7 Guinea, and subsequently from 

 the D 'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, to the eastward of the Territory, but he was 

 unable to include it in the Appendix to his "Descriptive Catalogue of Australian 

 Fishes," published in 1881. Later, however, in the same year de Vis announced 

 the occurrence of two specimens from the Queensland Coast: in addition to 

 these the Queensland Museum possesses two other local examples labeled 

 "Moreton Bay." Finally the Endeavour trawled five specimens on fine dark 

 sand in 33 fathoms three and a half miles south-east from Double Island Point. 



How acquired : — The two specimens originally recorded by de Vis were 

 collected by Mr. Kendall Broadbent on the North Queensland Coast; of those 

 from Moreton Bay no further information is procurable. 



Dimensions: — A small species, attaining a length of 120 millim. 



Remarks: — Described from the Moreton Bay specimens above mentioned, 

 Avhich respectively measure 97 and 105 millim. 



HOLACANTHUS SEXSTRIATUS Kuhl & van Hasselt. 



Holacanthus sexstriatus (Kuhl & van Hasselt) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 

 1831, p. 194 ; Bleeker, Nat,, Gen. Arch. Nederl. Ind., i, 1844, p. 520 ; id., Verh. Batav. 

 Gen., xxiii, 1850, Ch^t., p. 25 ; id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., hi, p. 57 ; id., Act. Soc. Sci. 



- Gunther, relying on Garrett, records the species from the Hawaiian Islands, but the keen- 

 eyed American collectors of those much-exploited isles having failed to rediscover it, the record 

 must be taken as doubtful. 



