92 MEMOmS OF THE QVEEXSLAM) MrsEi'M. 



Colour. — After preservation in weak alcohol, the general eolour is dark 

 coffee brown, with indistinct darker bases to the scales. Most of the scales of the 

 back. side, and soft dorsal with a minute pale spot; the scales on the lower 

 portion of the opercuhnn and the base of the pectoral each with larger pale 

 bluish spots. A row of light infraorbital spots. Dorsal fins with a broad orange 

 margin which is most intense on the soft portion ; two irregular blue streaks 

 bet\veen each of the third to last spines ; a large black blotch between the upper 

 portion of the second and third spini\s. Tip of the upper caudal lobe bright 

 orange. Soft dorsal, caudal, anal, pectorals and vcntrals blackish, the spines of 

 the anal and ventrals light blue. 



Described from a specimen 11.") iimi. long from the snout to the end of 

 the middle caudal rays. It agrees lietter with the second specimen referred to 

 by de Vis than with that upon which he bases his description. 



Loc. — Ilolborn Is., off Port Denison, Queensland; collected by Mr. E. ?I. 

 Rainford. 



Family TEUTHIDID.E. 



Genus TEUTHLS, Linne. 



Bepatvs. Oronow, Zoophyl.. 17(5.'!, p. 113 — n(iiibiii'>iiii;il. 8ee .Jonlan. Gemnvi FiHlii>s. 1917, p. 20. 



Teuthis, Linne, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1766, p. 2:? (T. Iirfaliix, Liiine). hi.. .Tonlnn, Inc. cit.. 

 p. 23. 



TEUrraS GRAMMOPTILUS, Rirhanlson. 



(Plate XXVIIL) 



Aranthurus rirammnptilm. Kic-liardsun, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xi, 1842, p. 176. Id., Giinther, 

 Brit. Mas. Cat. Fish., iii, 1861, !>. 335. Id., Maclcay. Tioe. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, ii, 



1878, p. 3.54, and v, 1881, p. 328. Id., Khuizinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx, i, 



1879, p. 393. 



D. ix/27; A. iii/25; P. 17; V. i/f) ; ('. l(i. Depth bcfoir the ventrals 1-9 

 in the length to the hyimral .joint ; head :!•") in the same. Eye 2-3 in its distance 

 from the ujiper li|), iind '■'>■'.) in the head; inter()i'l)ital space widei' than the eye, 

 '.', ill till- lii-ad. Last dorsal spine 1-."), ciiiliteent li doi'sal r;iy Ml in tlic licad. 

 Pectoral 1-04, vmlral 1-2 in the lirad. 



The profile from the snout to the dorsal fin is obliquely convex, the fore- 

 licad before the; eyes forming an obtu.se angle between the contours of the snout 

 and the nape. Opereles obliejue; ])reopereular border and the whole of the 

 operculum striated. Nostrils approximate, the anterioi' much larger than the 



