EDIBLE FISHES OF QV FEN SLANT)— OCI LBV. 8'J 



Described from a .spfeiineii, nicasiiriiig 211 inni., netted at Croker Island, 

 N.T., by Mr. John Colclongli. Keg. No. I. 1534. 



Note: — Although this species has not as yet been recorded ivom Queens- 

 land waters I consider it advi.sable to introduce it here, so as to make this review 

 comprise all the known Australian species. 



Part XIV.— BALISTID/€ (No. 1). 



CANTHERINES MAYNARDI Ogilby. 



(Plate XXVI.) 



Cantheriiies mayitardi Ogilby, Proe. Koy. Soc. Queensl., x.xviii, 1910, p. 114. 



BBOWN-SPOTTED LEATHERJACKET. 



Body ovate, with the interdorsal profile emarginate, its depth above the 

 pelvic spine 2, between the origins of the dorsal and anal fins 24, in it.s length ; 

 caudal peduncle rather slender, its least depth less than the width of the gill- 

 opening. Head bluntly triangular, its lengtli 3-6 in that of the body. Snout 

 with an anterior protuberance, behind which it is feebly concave to above the 

 nostrils. Eye midway between the tip of the snout and the 4th dorsal ray, and 

 one and a half time nearer to the dorsal spine than to the gill-openiug, its 

 diameter 3-8 in the length of the snout and equal to the convex interorbital 

 width. Gill-opening exceptionally oblique, commencing slightly in advance of 

 the nostrils and before the middle of the pectoral-base, and terminating below 

 the middle of the eye, its width three fourths more than the eye-diameter, the 

 inner flap but little protruding. 



Skiu covered with soft granules, which appear velvety to the touch, but 

 contain a retrorse spinule ; caudal peduncle without diflferentiated spines (??); 

 sides with a few short thread-like cirri, arranged in more or less regular 

 longitudinal series. 



Dorsal spine inserted above the last quarter of the eye, armed anteriorly 

 with two rows of close-set blunt tubercles, jiosteriorly with two more remote 

 rows of short blunt spines, its length 1-6 in that of the head;^* 2nd dorsal spine 

 weak. Soft dorsal with 35 rays, its outline feebly rounded, its height 4-3 in its 

 length, which equals the distance between its oi'igin and that of the anal. 

 Caudal rounded and greatly developed, its length slightly more than that of the 

 head. Anal fin with 32 rays, originating below the ninth dorsal ray and 

 terminating a little behind the soft dorsal, than which it is one fourth shoi'ter 

 and a trifle higher. Pectoral fin inserted below the anterior half of the eye, 



" Tlie spine appears to liave been injured at some time as, in addition to the bifurcation 

 of tlie tip, there is a prominent tumor near ttie base. 



