JCDIBLK FISHES OF QUEENSLAND— OniniT. 79 



SCiaiJIA NOVffi-HOLLANDIffi SlfiniUu'Uncr. 



(Plate XXIII.) 



Scia-na (Con'ina) novw-hoUaiuliir Steinilacliner, Sitz. Akacl. Wieu, liii, 18(i0, i. p. ii'S, pi. v, 



fig. 2. 

 IJohiinins nova'-hollandiw Blceker, Yerh. Akad. Amst., xiv, 1874, Sciien., p. 44; id., Atlas Iclith., 



viii, 1876, pi. ecelxxxvii, fig. 2. 

 Corviiiii comes de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, ix, 1884, p. 538. 

 Pseudomyctcriis maccullochi Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Quccnsl., xxi, 1908, p. 96. 



BOTTLENOSE JEWFTSH. 



Tijpc localities: — Port Jaeksou, N.S.W. (iSf. nova -liolhiii dice) . 

 Brisbane River. S.Q. (C. comes). 

 Logan River, S.Q. {P. maccullochi). 



Body ellijitieal and robust, the dorsal contour ranch more arched than the 

 ventral, its width 1-7 in its depth, which is 3-2tS in its length and a little more 

 than the length of the head. Abdomen moderate, its length from ventral-base to 

 vent 3-25 to 3-4 in that of the body and 1-28 in the space between the vent and the 

 root of the caudal. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep, its least depth 2-75 

 in the length of the head. Head two ninths decider than wide, its upper profile 

 and that of the nape linear and modei-ately acclivous, its width 1-6 to 1-75 in its 

 length, which is 3-2.5 to 3-5 in that of the body. Snout obtusely rounded and 

 conspicuously gibbous in front, projecting far beyond the jaws, its length 3-14 in 

 that of the head. Diameter of eye two sevenths to two fifths less than the length 

 of the snout and 4-33 in that of the head. Preorbital deep, its least width 1-1 to 

 1-28 in the eye-diameter. Interorbital region wide and convex, its width one fifth 

 more than the eye-diameter and 3-60 in the length of the head. Upper jaw the 

 longer ; cleft of mouth but little obliciue, not nearly reaching to the level of the 

 eye; maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye, its length leather less 

 than a third of the head. Preopercle and posttemporal entire, the former with a 

 narrow erenulated membranous border ; ojjercle witli a single spinous point. 



Jaws with narrow bands of villiform teeth, the outer premaxillary row 

 enlarged. 



Scales in 55 to 58 series above the lateral line, in 7/1/14 or 15 between the 

 origin of the spinous dorsal and the vent; scales of head, except those of the 

 snout, preorbitals, and mandible, ctenoid; vertical fins scaly almost to their tips. 

 Lateral line with 46 to 48 tube-bearing body-scales, forming a long gentle curve 

 to below the middle of the soft dorsal, the tube straight and not reaching to the 

 border of the .scale, each with an a.sceuding and a descending tubule. Antero- 

 inferior margin of snout l)eariug four broad papilliform processes, whicli separate 

 and conceal a series of five pores; a single large open pore on the chin, followed 

 on each side by a slit-like pore. 



Dorsal fins with x, i 28 or 29 rays, the first originating above the pectoral- 

 base ; last spine of first dorsal basally united to and nearly as long as the spine of 

 the second dorsal ; second spine slightly longer than the third, 1-4 in the length of 

 the head and 1-12 in its basal length, which is 2-14 in that of the second dorsal, 



