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seiited to the ]\Iuseiini % Mr. A. E. Wood, who obtained it in Moreton Ba3^ 

 This lish was originally described from Amboina and is apparently rare in 

 collections, as I have been unable to find any further record of it under Bieeker's 

 name. It is, however, of special interest to Australian ichthyologists, as it is 

 without a doubt identical with the fish described by Castelnau from Port Jackson 

 thirty-six years ago as Apharcus rose us, '^'^ and which has not been rediscovered 

 until now ; his specimen measured about 600 millim. 



MULLID^.. 



MULLOIDES AURIFLAMMA For.skal.ie 



When I first recorded the occurrence of this fish in our waters in 1908,^" I 

 only knew of the ordinary yellow-banded form. In my "' Endeavour" notebooks 

 I find, however, the following entry, which is Avorth noting — " in a few cases the 

 yellow lateral band was replaced by one of bright red." These w^ere taken in 

 Hervey Bay. 



CH^TODONTID.^. 



CHELMONOPS TRUNCATUS (Kner).i8 



Occurs as far north as Double Island Point, S.Q., where a single specimen 

 was trawled at a depth of 33 fath. 



CHEILODACTYLID^E. 



GONIISTIUS VESTITUS Castelnau." 



I can not agree with Macleay that this species is identical wdth the 

 Hawaiian G. vitfatns.-° In all the specimens which I have seen from Moreton 

 Bay, the dark dorso-lateral band is continued unbrokenly to the tip of the lower 

 caudal lobe, which it completely covers, as described by Castelnau. Neither am I 

 quite satisfied as to the necessity for separating Gojiiistius from Chcilodactylus. 



DACTYLOPAGRUS. 



IMcCulloch-^ has used the generic name Dactylosparus for Gheilodactylus 

 carponemus and its allies. No blame can be attached to this gentleman for, as 

 in the subsequent case of Pagrosomus and Sparosomus,-^ the mistake was entirely 

 due to Gill's carelessness in forming two different names for the same species 

 in the same paper. The synonymy here given shows that Daciylopagrus is the 

 correct name; since it is quite distinctly defined, which Pagrosomus, though 

 widely employed, is not. 



Daciylopagrus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 114. 



Dactylosparus Gill, ibid., p. 117. 



" Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii, p. 373. 



^* Descr. Anim., p. 30. 



^' Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxi, p. 21. 



" Sitz. Akad. Wien, xxxiv. p. 442. 



" Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii, p. 377. 



^° Glinther, Fiscli. d. Sndsee, pi. 51, fig. B. 



-^ Zool. Res. Endeavour, i, p. 65. 



--Nat. Acad. Sci. Washington, vi, pp. 97, 116, 123. 



