10G MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Indo-Neerl., viii, 1860, Celebes, p. 35 ; Giinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 49 ; 

 Kner. Reisc Novara, Zool., i, Fische, pt. i, 1865, p. 104 ; Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., 

 ii, 1865, p. 287 ; Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, i, pt. 2, 1877, p. 277 ; 

 Bleeker, Verb. Akad. Amsterdam, xvii, 1877, Chset., p. 140 ; id., Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., 

 xii, 1877, p. 22 ; id., Atlas Ichth., ix, 1877, p. 66, pi. ccclxxii, fig. 2 ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, ii, pt, 4, 1878, p. 352 ; id., ibid., v, pt. 3, 1881, p. 395 (after Giinther) ; 

 id., ibid., vii, pt. 2, 18S2, p. 244. 

 Chcetodon resimus Gronow, Catal., ed. Gray, 1854, p. 71 : " in Oceano Indico." 



Type locality: — Java. 



Depth of body 1-65 to 1-8 in its length : dorsal contour a little less elevated 

 than the ventral, its anterior profile linear and moderately acclivous from the 

 lip to above the anterior third of the eye. thence rising- more abruptly by a high 

 convexity to the origin of the spinous dorsal, along the base of which it is feebly 

 convex, while that of the soft forms an even curve to the caudal peduncle; 

 ventral contour feebly concave to the throat, thence evenly rounded to the 

 peduncle, the least depth of which is 7-3 in the length of the. body. "Width of 

 head 1-3 to 1-4 in its length, which is 1-2 in its depth and 3-9 in the body-length. 

 Diameter of eye 2 to 2-2 in the length of the snout, which is 2-1 in that of the 

 head; interorbital region one third to two thirds wider and one eighth to one 

 fifth higher than the eye-diameter. Maxillary not extending to below the anterior 

 nostril; lower jaw projecting. Preorbital entire, its width one third to three 

 sevenths more than the eye-diameter. Hinder limb of preopercle inclined well 

 backwards and rather weakly serrated, lower limb with several strong teeth 

 decreasing in size from behind ; spine long and conspicuously grooved. 2 to 2-25 

 in the length of the head, and extending beyond the pectoral axil. 



Scales feebly ctenoid, the exposed portion with fine often broken horizontal 

 srri;e and a narrow spinulose inframarginal band, the basal border inconspicu- 

 ously lobulate, in 48 to 50 series above the lateral line and in 7 or 8/1/22 to 24 

 between the spinous dorsal and the vent ; squamulae present near the lateral line, 

 which is complete and follows the contour of the back: tubes with an ascending 

 and a descending lobule, not extending to the margin of the scale. 



Dorsal fin originating above the pectoral axil, with xiii (rarely xiv) 20 

 rays, the soft portion 1-5 in the spinous; spines graduated, the 1st short, 3-5 in 

 the last, which is 1-85 to 2-1 in the longest ray and one fifth to one sixth of the 

 body-length ; soft dorsal with obtusely cuneiform outline, the 5th and 6th rays 

 longest, extending to the level of between the middle and end of the caudal fin, 

 its hinder border oblicptely truncate. Caudal fin gently rounded, the middle 

 rays a little longer than the outer and 4-25 to 5 in the length of the body. Anal 

 fin with iii 18 or 19 rays, originating below the 8th dorsal spine, the 1st spine 

 2-2 in the last, which is 1-9 to 2-05 in the 7th ray and 6-15 to 6-7 in the body- 

 length; soft anal as long as but much lower and more obtuse than the soft dorsal, 

 barely reaching to a level with the middle of the caudal. Pectoral with 19 rays,, 

 its length 3-75 to 4 in that of the body, the 4th ray longest, extending to below 



