ON A NEW TERAPON FROM THE STANTHORPE 
DISTRICT, SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND. 
By J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 
Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 31st. August, 1906. 
TERAPON IDONEUS, sp. nov. 
Wuite’s Prercu. 
D. xi 10: A. in 8; Sc. 8-54-22; Ll. 46. 
DeprH of body equal to length of head, 34 in the 
total length Dorsal profile much more strongly arched 
than the abdominal. Upper profile of head obliquely 
linear, the snout somewhat pointed. Diameter of eye 5$ in 
the length of the head and 13 in that of the snout. 
Interorbital region flat, its width 33 in the length of the 
head. Jaws equal. Maxillary extending to the vertical 
from the middle of the eye, its length 25 in that of the 
head, the width of its distal extremity 3 of the diameter of 
the eye. No vomerine or palatine teeth. Preorbital in- 
distinctly roughened posteriorly. Preopercle very finely 
serrated on and above the rounded anyle, smooth below, 
with 9 or LO series of small scales ; interopercle with 3 series. 
Opercle with a pair of strong bony prominences, which 
hardly constitute true spines, the lower much the Jarger. 
Free edge of the coracoid bone finely and evenly denticu- 
lated. Gill-rakers, 4 + 11, mostly tubercular, the longest 
but 7 ; of the diameter of the eye. Dorsal fin low, 
originating well behind the base of the pectorals, the spines 
increasing in height to the 5th. and 6th., which are 
25 in the length of the head and about equal to 
the longest soft ray; first spine about half the length: 
of the last, which is shorter than the penultimate and half 
