170 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Gill-rakers 6 or 7 + 12 or 13, well developed, the longest 3 to 3-33 in the 

 cye-dianieter. 



Upper surface of body pink washed with gold, lower surface and sides 

 silvery. Head above dull red, shading imperceptibly into the paler body-color. 

 Dorsal and caudal tins saffron yellow, the base and lateral borders of the latter 

 pink; anal and ventral fins colorless; pectoral with the upper rays yellow, the 

 lower hyaline. (Sinirus, an allied genus; forma, form.) 



Described from nine specimens, measuring from 174 to 250 millim.. taken 

 off Cape Moretnn, S.Q., on the 3rd of September 1910 during the last cruise of 

 the F.I.S. "Endeavour" in Queensland waters. 



Historical: — Our present knowledge of this handsome tisli may be summed 

 up in a very few words. On the date mentioned tlie trawl was lowered on a 

 bottom of fine sand and mud at a distance of 36-5 miles S. 12° W. from Cape 

 ]Moreton, the depth being 73 fathoms, and captured, among a number of other 

 species, 141 examples of this sea bream. Nowhere else did the species come 

 under notice, nor have I ever known it to be taken by hook on the Snapper Banks 

 off Moreton Bay. 



Uses: — On the following morning a few were served up for breakfast at 

 the officers' mess, and were unanimously proclaimed delicate and well flavored. 



Dimensions : — To at least 250 millim. 



Illustration: — Our figure is taken from a cotype in the Australian ]Museum, 

 Sydney. 



GYMNOCRANIUS Klunzinger. 



Gymnocranius Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx, 1870, p. 765 {rivulatus) ; Bleeker, 

 AtJas Ichth., viii, pt. 2, 1877, p. 95; Jordan & Thompson, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., xli, 

 1912, p. 568. 



Paradentex Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., xi, 1876, p. 278 [microdon). 



Differs from Dentex in having the — lateral line extending on the base 

 of the caudal, the tubes simple and straight. Head naked, except the opercle, 

 subopercle, parietal region, and the posterior portion of the cheek. Nostrils 

 approximate. Eye large. Dorsal fin with x 10, anal with iii 10, raj-s; 3rd 

 anal spine longest. 



INIarine food-fishes of moderate size and excellent flavor from the Western 

 Pacific ; one species from the Red Sea. About six species have been described. 



GYMNOCRANIUS AUDLEYI sp. no v. 

 COLLARED SEA-BREAM. 

 (Plate XXII.) 



Type locaHfij: — Snapper Banks off ]\Ioreton Bay. 



Body ovate, the dorsal contour well elevated, its width 2-6 to 2-7 in its 

 depth, w^hich is 2-3 to 2-33 in its length and one fourth more than the length of 

 the head. Caudal peduncle about two thirds longer than deep, its least depth 

 8-55 to 8-85 in the length of the body. Head a little deeper than long, its 

 upper profile linear and strongly declivous to above the middle of the" eye. 

 beyond which is a moderate gibbosity, passing gradually into the almost flat 

 anterior profile of the back, its width 2-15 to 2-2 in its length, which is 2-85 to 

 3 in the length of the body. Length of snout 1.95 to 2-05 ^in that of the head. 



