SOME NEW OB LITTLE-KNOWN AUSTRALIAN FISHES.— OGILBY. 117 



ON SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN 

 AUSTRALIAN FISHES. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby. 



(Plates XXIX-XXX.) 



In the following pages there will be found descriptions of a new genus 

 and five new species of Queensland Fishes, as well as redescriptions of three 

 others, which for some reason are interesting. They are as follow : — 



1. Physodon taylori sp. nov. Galeidce. 



2. Melanotjenia maccullochi sp. nov. Atlierinicke. 



3. Psenes hillii sp. nov. Stromateidce. 



4. Plectorhynchus multivittatus (Maeleay). Pomadasidm. 



5. Reganichthys magnificus gen. et sp. nov. ? Pempheridce. 



6. Asterropteryx semipunctatus Ruppell. Eleotridce. 



7. Blennius intermedius sp. nov. Blenniidce. 



8. Spheroides multistriatus (Richardson). Tetraodontidce. 



The three beautiful illustrations in this paper were kindly drawn by Mr. 

 Allan R. McCulloch, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, to whom we here tender 

 our grateful thanks. 1 



Family GALEIDM. 



PHYSODON TAYLORI sp. nov. 



Type locality: — Townsville, N.Q. 



Body moderately slender and compressed, the vent slightly premedian, 

 Its contour between the eye and the first dorsal convex. Head about one eighth 

 wider than deep, its length to the first gill-slit 6-1, to the last 4-8 in the total 

 length. Snout rather short and obtusely pointed, depressed, its preoral length 

 1-33 time the ramal length of the upper jaw, a little more than the width of the 

 mouth, and one tenth less than the space between the eye and the first gill-slit. 

 •Oro-narial interspace half the distance of the nostril from the tip of the snout, 

 which is one sixth more than the internarial width, 1-2 in the space between the 

 nostril and the angle of the mouth, and 1-55 in that between the outer angles of 

 the nostrils. Width of nostril a little less than the eye-diameter; two small 

 triangular valvules, the outer the larger, near the inner angle of the nostril 

 anteriorly. Eye vertically elliptical, three tenths nearer to the mouth than to 

 the nostril, and midway between the tip of the snout and the first gill-slit, its 



1 1 have great pleasure in supplementing Mr. Ogilby 's remarks. From time to time the 

 •Queensland Museum has been indebted in more than one respect to Mr. McCulloch, and I wish 

 ■very heartily to record my appreciation of his valuable assistance. — E. Hamlyn-Harris. 



