yA ON NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES 
by increasingly protecting the nurseries of our food-fishes 
from the onslaughts of ignorance and greed. Finally, it 
demonstrates in no uncertain way that this Association 
is worthy of a more intelligent support, both financial and 
sympathetic, from Parliament and the public, since the 
work is done in the common interest of all, without reward, 
save in the consciousness of worthy work worthily per- 
formed. 
All the fishes referred to in this paper, whether types 
or otherwise, are in the collection of the Amateur Fisher- 
men’s Association of Queensland. 
The general results attained in this paper may be most 
advantageously shown by dividing the analysis referred 
to above into different sections as follow :— 
a. Proposed new genera (4). 
BracHZLURUS ; fam. Orectolobide ; type, B. colclought 
Ogilby ; v. infra. 
CIRRISCYLLIUM ; fam. ead.; type, Chiloscyllium modestum 
Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 654, pl. Liv : Queens- 
land. 
Prenonotus ; fam. EHxocetide ; type, Hxocwtus cirriger* 
Peters, Mon. Akad. Berlin, 1877, p. 555, pl.—fig. 1: 
China. 
Merrocymnus; fam. Opistognathide; type, M. eximius 
Ogilby ; v. infra. 
b. Proposed new species (11). 
1. HeTERODONTUS BON2/-SPEI; fam. Heterodontide; Table 
Bay, S. Africa. 
2. BRACHEZLURUS COLCLOUGHI ; fam. Scyliorhinide ; More- 
ton Bay. 
DASYATIS FLUVIORUM ; fam. Dasyatide ; Brisbane River. 
4. EXONAUTES FULVIPES; fam. Hzocetide: Lord Howe 
Island. 
TRACHINOTUS VELOX ; fam. Carangide; Moreton Bay. 
6. APOGONICHTHYS NEBULOSUS; fam. Apogonide; Bris- 
bane River. 
7. HYPOPLECTRODES JAMESONI ; fam. Serranide ; Moreton 
Bay. 
8. PARAPLESIOPS POWERI; fam. ead.; Moreton Bay. 
ad 
on 
* This species has so far been recorded from the China Sea only. 
