184 MEMOIIiS OF TTIE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



LABRID.^. 



LEPIDAPLOIS PERDITIO (Quoy & Gaimard).^^ 



Not uncommon on the Snai)per Banks off Moreton Bay, and greatly prized 

 for its edible qualities. 



LEPIDAPLOIS MESOTHORAX ( Schneider) .«* 



The Q;ueensland ]\Iuseum possesses a small example of this handsome 

 labrid, taken on the Barrier Reef by Mr. Kendall Broadl)ent. 



NOVACULICHTHYS JACKSONENSIS (Ramsay).-" 



There is a fine specimen in the collection of the Amateur Fishermen's 

 Association of Queensland, caught in ]\Ioreton Bay. 



HEPATIDJ5. 



HEPATUS TRIOSTEGUS (Unnmiis).^^ 



This widely distributed fish occurs, as might be expected, on the Queens- 

 land Coast. The late j\Ir. de Vis described it as new from the Duke of York 

 Island under the name Acanfhiirus zehra,~~ overlooking the fact that Lacepede 

 had already bestowed on it the same synonymic title.-** 



ELEOTRID.E. 



KREFFTIUS AUSTRALIS (Kreftt).-^ 



This gudgeon ranges at least as far north as the Logan River, S.Q., whence 

 a specimen was brought for identification to the Amateur Fishermen's Associa- 

 tion bv ]\Ir. C. Harris. 



BLENNIID.E. 

 BLENNIUS TASMANIANUS Richardson. so 



I can find no definite record of this little fish as a native of Queensland, 

 nevertheless it is not uncommon in IMoreton Bay and southwards. 



^^ Voy. Astrolabe, Poiss., p. 702. 



2* In Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 2.54. 



-5 Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, vi, p. 198. 



■-"Syst. Nat.,ed. i, p. 



-' Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, viii, p. 447. 



28 Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, p. .54(5. 



-9 Proc. Zool. Soc. Loo'lon, 1804, p. IS.'! 



^'' Trans. Zool. Soc. London, iii, p. I X'.: 



