EDIBLE EISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBT. 171 



Diameter of eye 145 to 1-55 in the length of the snout and a little more to a 

 little less than its distance from the angle of the mouth. Interorbital region 

 elevated and bluntly cultriform, its width 3-3 to 3-35 in the length of the head 

 and a little more than the eye-diameter. Jaws equal; maxillary extending to 

 below the nostrils, its length 2-85 to 3, that of the mandible 24 to 245 in the 

 length of the head. 



Two pairs of small caninoid teeth anteriorly in the jaws, the outer 

 mandibular pair the largest; lateral teeth but little smaller than the canines, 

 becoming gradually blunter posteriorly. 



Scales in 48 series above the lateral line, in 6/1/15 or 16 from the base 

 of the first dorsal spine obliquely backwards ; cheek-scales in 4 series, extending 

 upwards to a level with the upper border of the pupil. 



Dorsal fin originating above the pectoral-base, the spines increasing in 

 length to the 4th or 5th, which is 3 to 3-25 in the length of the head and 1-6 in 

 the middle rays; succeeding spines gently graded, the last two or even three 

 about equal and one seventh less than the longest; soft dorsal one tenth longer 

 than high, its length two thirds of that of the head. Caudal deeply emarginate 

 with pointed lobes, the middle rays 1-9 to 2 in the upper lobe, which is 3-35 

 to 34 in the body-length. Anal spines strong, the 3rd longest, 3-1 to 34 in the 

 length of the head ; soft anal one half longer than high, the middle rays longest, 

 one third more than the 3rd spine. Pectoral with 14 rays, its length 3 to 3-2 

 in that of the body ; 2nd ray as long as the 3rd, and extending to above the anal 

 spines. Ventral inserted below the inferior axil of the pectoral, the spine weak 

 and flexible, 1-6 in the outer ray, which is much the longest, 1-25 in the length 

 of the pectoral, 1-33 in that of the head, and extends to the 2nd anal spine. 



Gill-rakers 3+5, very short and stout. 



Light brown above the lateral line, each scale with a narrow border and 

 often a basal spot of darker brown; sides and belly silvery, the middle area of 

 the upper sides from beneath the middle of to some distance behind the 

 appressed pectoral sometimes with obscure dusky bands. Head above dull 

 violet deepening to lead-color on the snout; cheeks and opercles silvery washed 

 with gold; a broad milk-white nuchal collar, which splits in two on the side 

 of the head, the anterior branch entering the eye and thence passing obliquely 

 'backwards to unite with the posterior branch, which passes downwards along 

 the preopercular border; all the scales included between the branches dark 

 chestnut ])rown in strong contrast with the rest of the head and trunk. Fins 

 colorless. (Named after my friend Audley Kaymond Jones, to whom I am 

 indebted for much interesting information regarding the habits of our fishes.) 



Described from two specimens taken by hook on the Snapper Banks off 

 Moreton Bay, and measuring respectively 321 and 328 millim. 



Reg. Xo. of type in the Queensland Museum : — -I. 14/2138. 



Range: — Coast of South Queensland. While the Collared Bream can not 

 be called a rare fish it is as certainly not a common one with us, though 

 apparently generally distributed in suitable localities along our entire coastline. 

 My notes contain particulars of about a score from the Snapper Grounds off 

 Moreton Bay, of one from the Jewfish Shoal off Noosa Head, 5 from Hervey 

 Bay, 3 from the Bunker Group, 1 from Rock-Cod Reef, and 2 from Nor- West 

 Islet. It is, therefore, principally a line fish, and in fact was taken by the 

 trawl on one occasion onlv during the visit of the ' ' Endeavour ' ' ; this happened 



