EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 159 



Australian waters it is so far known from the coasts of Queensland and Northern 

 New South Wales (Stcnd) only. In this State it has been recorded from Moreton 

 Bay, S.Q. {O.C. cC Ogilhy),^^ Percy Islands, M.Q. {Alley nc & Maclcay), Cleveland 

 Bay, N.Q. (Khotzingcr), Somerset, N.Q. {Gunther), Raine Island, B.R. {Ogilhy), 

 and Darnley Island {Tosh). From British New Guinea it has been sent from 

 Port MoreslD}^ {Maclcay) . Passing eastward we find it occurring at Aneiteum 

 and Samoa {Onnthcr) and Vavan {Kendall & GolcUhorougli) . Turning to the 

 westward, Bleeker received it from the Austro-lNIalayan Islands of Amboina, 

 Obi, and Celebes, and from the Indo-Malayan Borneo, Biliton, Java, Banca, 

 Sumatra, Pinang, and Cocos. It has been recorded from Formosa {Jordan & 

 h'icJiardson), IMacao {Bic hard son), China {Blccker), and the Andamans {Day), 

 is common on both sides of the Indian Peninsula, whence it ranges westward to 

 South Arabia {Stcindachner) and the Red Sea, and soutli- westward to the 

 Seychelles {Dussumicr) and Madagascar {Commercon) . 



Dimensions: — My largest example measured, as stated above, 375 millini., 

 but Russell records one of 510, and Riippell states that it grows to 760. Com- 

 mercon "s specimen, which formed the type of Ca'siomoriis hlochii Lacepede, was a 

 little over 450 millim. and weighed 3 lb., but he remarked that it attained twice 

 that size. 



Illustration: — Our figure is taken from the Raine Island fish, and is on 

 exhibition in the show-cases of the Queensland Museum, Reg. No. I. 14/1912. 



Part VII.— LETHRINIDy€ (No. i). 

 Family LETHRINID^. 



Lethrinidce Regan, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. (8) xii, July 1913, p. 123. 



THE WIIIPTAIL, OX-EYE, AND EMPEROR BREAMS. 



. Body compressed, covered with moderate or rather small, adherent, ciliated 

 scales. Lateral line complete, not extending on the caudal fin, the tubes bifid or 

 simple, not reaching the l3order of the scale. Head partially scaly, with moderate 

 or long, pointed snout. Mouth terminal, protractile, with moderate, oblique 

 cleft. Jaws anteriorly with rows of villiform teeth, preceded by canines; 

 laterally with a single series of stout teeth, which may be conical or obtuse ; roof 

 of mouth and tongue toothless. One dorsal fin, with 10 heteracanthous spines, 

 the spinous portion nuich longer than the soft and depressible in a groove. 

 Caudal fin more or less deeply emarginate, with 17 principal rays, 15 of which are 

 branched. Anal fin short. Pectorals pointed. Ventrals thoracic, approximate, 

 pointed, with i 5 rays, inserted behind or below the pectoral-base ; accessory scale 

 present. Gill-openings wide; gill-membranes united, free from the isthmus; 

 six branchiostegals ; pseudobranchige present ; gills four, a slit behind the fourth ; 

 gill-rakers mostly reduced to a few spinulose prominences; pharyngeal bones 

 separate. Air-bladder present. Stomach caical; pyloric appendages in small 

 number; intestinal canal short. Vertebra' 24 (10-|-14). 



^^ This specimen was ptirchased in the Brisbane market by Mr. Vincent Jeff, a fishmonger 

 of long standing and wide experience, who kindly presented it to me. That he had never before 

 seen anything like it proves its great rarity in onr soiithern waters. 



