114 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Reg. Xo. in the Queensland Museum of the specimen described: — ■ 

 I. 14/1781. 



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



Range : — Coasts of tropical and subtropical Australia. From the Queens- 

 land Coast I have seen four specimens obtained in Moreton Bay (2), Port Curtis 

 (1). and Rockingham Bay (1). 



Dimensions: — Attains a length of 180 millimeters. 



Remarks: — First described by Gunther from specimens forwarded to the 

 British Museum by Mr. F. H. du Bouley from the North- West Coast of Aus- 

 tralia, it next appeared at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, where Spalding 

 collected four examples for the Hon. Sir Wm. Macleay. Two years later Klun- 

 zinger recorded it from the same locality. McCulloeh mentions an example from 

 Cape York, N.Q., in the Australian Museum. Our specimen is from Cardwell, 

 N.Q., where it was collected by Mr. Kendall Broadbent, and measures 150 millim. 

 Finally McCulloeh records it from Port Hedland, W.A. 



CHSTODONTOPLUS CONSPICILLATUS (Waite). 

 Holacanthus conspicillatus Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., iii, pt. 7, 15 June, 1900, p. 203, pi. xxxv; 



id., ibid., v, pt. 1, 1903, p. 37, and pt. 4, 1904, p. 215. 

 Holacanthus {Chcetodontoplus) personifer McCulloeh, Rec. West. Austr. Mus., i, pt. 3, p. 221, 



pi. xxxi. 



Type localities: — Lord Howe Island {conspicillatus) ; West Australia 

 {personifer). 



Depth of body 1-8 to 2 in its length ; dorsal and ventral contours about 

 equally elevated but not symmetrical, the former linear and very strongly 

 acclivous to above the posterior border of the eye, thence convex to the 3rd dorsal 

 spine, beyond which it is linear and feebly declivous to the middle of the soft 

 dorsal, whence it curves evenly downward to the caudal peduncle; ventral 

 contour convex to below the eye, thence linear and somewhat declivous to the 

 anal fin, the base of which describes a long gentle upward curve to the peduncle ; 

 least depth of peduncle 845 to 8-7 in the length of the body. Width of head 

 1-5 in its length, which is 1-2 in its depth and 4-1 to 4-35 in the body-length. 

 Diameter of eye 1-1 to 1-2 in the length of the snout, which is 2-6 to 3-35 in 

 that of the head ; interorbital region as wide as or a little wider than and about 

 as high as the eye-diameter. Lower jaw the longer; maxillary extending to 

 below the anterior nostril. Preorbital without spines, its width 1-25 to 1-55 in 

 the eye-diameter. Hinder limb of preopercle inclined somewhat backwards and 

 evenly serrated, the spine 2 to 2-4 in the length of the head and not quite reaching 

 to below the pectoral axil. 



Scales minute and strongly ctenoid, the exposed portion densely spinulose, 

 the basal margin without lobules. Lateral line incomplete, terminating in front 

 of and rather remote from the end of the soft dorsal. 



