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



125- 



Etymology : — Latin, magnificus, magnificent. 



Beg. No. of type in the Queensland Museum — I. 14/1803. 



Measurements of type in millimeters : — 



From tip of snout to that of outer caudal rays . . 265 



From tip of snout to that of middle caudal rays . . 216 



From tip of snout to base of middle caudal rays . . . . 162 



Widoi of body 39 



Depth of body . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 



Length of head . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 



Depth of caudal peduncle . . . . . . . . 29 



Width of head 36-5 



Depth of head . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 



Length of snout . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.3 



Diameter of eye . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-2 



Width of interorbit . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 



Length of maxillary . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 



Width of maxillary . . . . . . . . . . 12-5- 



Length of spinous dorsal . . . . . . . . . . 29 



Length of soft dorsal . . . . . . . . . . 47 



Last dorsal spine . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 



Middle caudal rays . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 



Outer caudal rays . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 



Length of anal . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 



Last anal spine . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 



Length of pectoral . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 



Length of ventral . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 



Bange: — Coast of North Queensland (Thursday Island). 



How acquired: — Collected and donated by Captain Donald McDonald. 



Family ELEOTRLL\E. 



ASTERROPTERYX SEMIPUNCTATUS Ruppell. 



Asterropteryx semipunctatus Eiippell, Atlas Fisch. Both. Meer., 1828 ; p. 138., pi. xxxiv, fig. iy 

 Giinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., iii, 1861, p. 132; Kner, Sitz. Akad. Wien, lviii, 1869, 

 p. 329; Kkmzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 484; Giinther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, 

 pt. 5, 1877, p. 187, pi. cxi, fig. D. 



Eleotris cyanostigma Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., viii, 1855, p. 452; Playfair, Proc. Zool. 



Soc, 1867, p. 862; Bleeker, in Pollen & van Dam, Faun. Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., 



p. 103. 

 Brachyeleotris cyanostigma Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) xi, 1877, p. 84. 



(Plate XXIX, Fig. 2.) 



Body short and stout, the dorsal contour evenly rounded and rather 

 more arched than the ventral, its width 1-67 in its depth, which is about one 



