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Fiviiiaiitle, W. A., by Mr. Bostock, hut I liave no hesitation in saying that this 

 record appertains to some quite distinct plesiopid, possibly P. melcagiis,'^ a fact 

 which tends to discredit Zietz's Gulf of St. Vincent record, that author having 

 failed to detect Castelnau's error. Nothing is known of the breeding of this fish. 

 j^^Sf^.-^Stead writes — "Although of edible value is not important enough 

 to be regarded as a market fish, either present or prospective." 



Dimensions: — Attains a length of 330 mm. 



Our figure, which is taken from an Australian Museum example, has been 

 placed at my disposal by the authorities of that institution. 



PARAPLESI0P3 JOLLIFFEI Ogilby. 

 (Plate XVII.) 

 Paraiilesiops joUiffei Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxviii, 1916, p. 112. 



BLUE-TIP LONGFIN. 

 Type heal it !j: — Green Island, Moreton Bay. ' 



Body ovate, the dorsal profile much more arched than the ventral, its width 

 anteriorly about three fourths of its depth, which is 2-37 to 2-55 of its length and 

 from a little to one seventh more than the length of the head. Caudal about 

 one half deeper than long, its least depth 5-6 to 6 in the body-length. Head 

 about one sixth deeper than wide, its upper profile and that of the nape linear 

 and strongly acclivous, its width 1-33 in its length, which is 2-67 to 2-75 in that 

 of the body. Snout short and blunt, with linear, subvertieal profile, its length 1.33 

 to 14 in the eye-diameter, which is 3 to 3-25 in the length of the head ; iuterorbital 

 region feebly convex, its width 8-25 in the length of the head. Jaws equal ; cleft 

 of mouth subhorizontal : maxillary extending to below the hinder border of the 

 eye, its length about half of that of the head. 



Jaws with bands of villiform teeth, broadest anteriorly, where the outer 

 and inner rows are composed of short, stout, widely set, conical teeth ; a 

 rectangular band of villiform teeth on the vomer and a short, straight, narrow 

 band on the palatines; lingual teeth in a broader baud. 



Scales in 32 or 33 series along the middle of the side ; in 4/]/'14 to 16 from 

 the base of the first dorsal spine obliquely backwards; tubes of lateral lines 28 to 

 30/12 ; opereles, except the preoperele, scaly, the rest of the head naked, except a 

 bisei'ial band of smaller scales on the cheek posteriorly ; naked parts with 

 numerous small open pores. 



Dorsal with xii 10 rays, originating above the opercular flap ; first and 

 second dorsal spines short ; the others gradually increasing in length to the last, 

 which is 1-67 to 1-83 in the length of tlie head ; outer border of soft dorsal acutely 

 angulated, the 7th ray the longest, as long as or longer than the head, and 



" MeCulloch has given us an excellent figure of this species in Kec. W. Austr. Mus., i, 

 pt. 2, 1912, pi. ix. 



