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CARACANTHUS UNIPINNA (day). 



Micropua miipinna Gray, Zool. Misc., ls:il, p. L'd. 



Amphiprionichthys apistus Blepker, Nat. Tijcl;;. Nederl. Ind., 18.55, p. 170. 



Centropus statirophorus Kner, Sitz. Akiwl. Wien, xxxix., 1860, p. 531. 



Caracanlkus apistus Blocker, Atlas lehth., ix, 1878, pi. ccccxvi, fig. 5; Jordan & E%'crinann, 



Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., xxiii, i, 1905, p. 454. 

 T racli ijce phalus bankioisis'Dc^ Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, viii, 1884, p. 450. 



The three eotypes of T. hankie iisis De Vis agi-ee iu all details with 

 Bleeker's figure of G. apistus, which is apparently synonymous with (". unipinna. 

 Loc: — Banks Islands, northern New Hebrides. The species ranges from 

 Zanzibar to Hawaii. 



PLATYCEPIIALID.E. 



PLATYCEPHALUS MARMORATUS Stead." 



While snapperiug iu the winter of 1917 I was fortunate enough to obtain 



a fine specimen of this handsome flathead, this being the first record of its 



occurrence in Queensland waters. It was cajJtured on the outer bank off 



Caloundra. 



TETRAODONTID.E. 

 SPHEROIDES MULTISTRIATUS ( Richardson ).'5 



111 a previous number of these "Memoirs"^" I described a specimen of 

 this rare toadfish, which had been forwarded from Townsville to the Queens- 

 land Museum. Last winter, when on a snapper trip to the Caloundra Banks, 

 I was both surprised and pleased, on making my usual tour of inspection at 

 the termination of a drift, to find a large example of this species lying discarded 

 on the deck, having evidently been thrown aside as worthless ; it was incontinently 

 commandeered. 



CERATODONTID.E. 

 The Queensland Museum has lately received, through Mr. A. A. Gilmour, 

 ]Manager of the State Fish IMarket, a specimen of Neoceratodus" forsteri from the 

 Coomera River, which measures only 495 mm., and thus definitely proves that the 

 fishes introduced by the late Mr. D. O'Connor on Aug. 29, 1896, are breeding in 

 that river; these fishes ranged from 33 to 45 in. in length, This gives us some 

 hope that they are similarly reprodufing their species in the other waters in 

 which they were placed about the same time. The history of these liberations 

 may profitably be given here in Mr. O'Connor's own word.s^'* : — "On May 7, 1895, 

 eiglit were put in the North Pine River about a mile above tidal influence. The 

 next, a lot of five, were on the 17th of November placed in a lagune near the 

 Albert River, on the property of Messrs. Collins and Sons. On the 15th 

 December I took eight to Mr. D. C. MeConnel and Sons, Cressbrook; these were 



^* New Fishes from New South Wales, 1908, p. 9, pis. hi to v. 

 " Anchiaomus niuUistriatus Richardson, Voy. Herald, 1854. p. 160, pi. xxix. 

 3« Vol. iii, p. 128. 



" Epiceratodus Teller, Abh. Geol. Reich., xv, 1891, Heft. 3 is antedated fifteen years 

 by Neoceratodus Castelnau. 



38 Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xii, 1897, p. 101-2. 



