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i:Kc«ti:ris (»k tmk ai'sirai.ux mi'sefm. 



llahitx. — This brilliant liltle Hsli is not uiu-oinmoii amoiip tlie brandies 

 of livinpf nia(iie[>oies on the Queensland Coast. Macleay found specimens 

 in the innermost recesses of dead coral at Darnley Island, where, he 

 considered, they had probably been born, though this conclusion seems to 

 be unwarranted. They are always covered witli a veiy tliick mucous in 

 wliich are closely packed granules resembling ova, thougli their micro- 

 scopic structui'e appears to differ from that of true eggs. 



Locx. — Darnley Island, Tori'es Strait ; cotypes of G. lerticalig. 

 Murray Island, Torres Strait ; coll. Hedley & McCullocli. Endeavour 

 River, Cooktown ; Macleay Museum, as G. viiicolor (Castl.), Macleay. 

 Green Island, off Cairns. North West Island, off Port Curtis ; coll. 

 H. Barrel I. 



GOBIODON QL'iNQCESTRi(;.\TUs, Cuvier .\- Viileucieuues. 



(Fig. -I.) 



Goliiiis iiuiuqiifstriifntiix, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 

 1837, p. 134.' 



Gohiodon ijiiiuiinestricjntitx, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, 

 p. 61. 1(1., Weber, " Siboga " Exped., Ivii., 1913, p. 454 (synonymy). 



1). vi/11 ; A. 9 ; P. 18 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. Depth before the ventrals 

 28 in the length to the hypural joint; head 35 in the same. Eye 4 in 

 the head and subequal to the snout ; intei-ocular width 1*3 in the eye. 

 Depth of the caudal peduncle I'i in its length. Breadth before the 

 pectoral base 2-1 in tlie height. 



Hiri' -i. Uobiodon c|uin(|uesti'i>iatiis. 



Head longer than deep, compressed ; upper jirolile ver}' convex, chin 

 prominent. Nostrils tnl)ulai", the posterior placed just before the eye. 

 A series of si.\ large tubular jiores extends aronml the preopercnlai- border 

 to behind the eye ; two otherS are on the interorbital space, and a pair 

 between the nostrils. Microscopic papillte are present on the lower pre- 

 opercular margin, beneath the eyes ^^'^^ around the mouth to below the 

 hnver lip. Interorbital space a little convex. Mouth slightly oblique, the 

 maxilla extending to beli>w tlie anterior half of the eye ; mandible not 

 quite so long as the upper jaw. Each jaw with a narrow band of villiform 



