96 MEMOIUS OF THE QUEEySLAXD ilVSEVM. 



Colour. — Uniform brownish grui'n, the caudal fin witli curved series of 

 darker eross-bands. 



Described and figured from a specimen 72 mm. long, which differs in 

 several details from Castehiau's description. Ilis example was said to have only 

 twenty-seven anal ray.s, whereas mine ha.s thirty-two; he counted only seven 

 caudal rays, but doubtless overlooked tlie five narrow rays which are intermediate 

 between the seven thick ones. 



Lac. — St. Crispin reef, oft' Port Douglas, on the outer edge of the Great 

 Barrier, Queensland ; in a tidal rock-jiool ; coll. A. R, MeCulloch, June, 1918. 



The holotype of the species, which is the only other specimen known, was 

 secured at Knob Island, North Australia.^ 



' Knob Island is probably a misprint for Nob Islancl, which is one of the Home Group 

 off Cape GreuviUe, North Queensland. 



