52 ilKMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAXD MUSEUM. 



Cleft of mouth moderate and obliqvu', the lower jaw slightly the longer. Canine 

 teeth iu both jaws, succeeded by a villiforni band; vomer and palatines Mith 

 villiform teeth; tongi;e toothless. Eye large. Nostrils contiguous, the anterior 

 vahidar. Preopercle entire or finely serrulate posteriorly ; opercle with a blunt 

 point; suprascapula serrated. Dorsal fin with x 11 rays, the spines slender and 

 flexible, naked as also are the soft rays, the last of which is more or less produced. 

 Caudal forked. Anal fin with iii 8 rays, similar to the soft dorsal. Pectoral long 

 and j)oiuted, with 15 to IS rays. Ventral inserted below or behind the pectoral- 

 base, the outer ray usually prodiiced, without accessory scale. Gill rakers in 

 moderate number, well develoiied. (a, priv. ; rrpiujv, a saw.) 



Pereiform fishes from the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Species 

 4 or 5. 



APRION MICROLEPIS (Bkekei). 



Chcetopterus microlepis Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amst. (2) iii, 1869, p. 80. 



Aprion (Aprinn) microlepis Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amst. xiii, 1873, Eevis. Lutjanus etc. 

 ]). 96; id., in Pollen & Van Dam. Faun. Madagascar, pt. 4. 1875, Poiss., pp. 26, 96; id., 

 Atlas Ichth., viii, 1877, p. 78, pi. cccxxxv, fig. 6. 



Aphareus roseus Castelnau, Proe. Linn. Son. N. S. Wales, iii, pt. 4, 1S79, p. 373; Mat'lcay, Proc. 



Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, v, 1881, p. 386; Woods, Fish & Fisher. N. S. Wales, 1882, p. 15; 



Ogilby, Catal. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1886, p. 13; Waitc, Synop. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1904, 



p. 33." 

 Aprion roseus McCulloeh, Ree. Austr. Mas., xi, 1917, p. 173, pi. xxx. 



ROSEATE SEA-BREAM. 



Type localities: — Amboina {Apr. mierolepi.s) . 

 Port Jackson {Aph. roseus). 



]Uh\\ (■llij)tieal and somewhat compressed, the dor.sal profile rather more 

 arched than the; ventral, its widtii 1-63 in its depth, which is 3-57 in its length 

 and subequal to the length of the head. Caudal ]3eduncle two and three fourths 

 times as long as dee]), its least depth 3-14 in the deplh of the body. Head about 

 two fifths longer tlian„ deep, tiie upi)er ju'ofile level and gently acclivous from 

 above the nostrils to the occiput, which with the nape is fivjbly I'ounded, its width 

 1-8 in its length, which is 3-44 in that of the body. Sjiout rather long, with gently 

 convex- profile, its length 2-!) in that of the head. Eye moderate, its diameter 1-3 

 in the length of the snout, 3-75 in that of the head, and twice its di.stanee from 

 the angle of tlir maxilhii-y groove; interorbital -region convex, its widtli one fifth 

 more than the eye-diameter and 3-14 in the length of the head. Lower jaw 

 prominent, the ma.xillary extending to sonu'what beyond tiie anterior border of 

 the eye, its length 2-6, that of llie mandilile 'J, in the lene-tli of the liead. 

 Preopercle feebly serrated, some of tlie teeth on the rouiKh'd angle <'nlarged; 

 oijercle with a pair of small s|)ines. 



Scales i)i 03 or ()4 ti'ansver'se ser'ies above the laler-al line; 7/l/1() scales 

 between the spinous dorsal and the vent ; cheek scales in 7 series. 



