16 ON NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES 
Type in the collection of the Amateur Fishermen’s 
Association of Queensland. 
Distribution.—Brisbane River. Type locality, Ed- 
ward Street Baths. 
FAMILY SERRANID. 
HYPOPLECTRODES JAMESONI sp. nov. 
D. x 20; A. im 8; Sc. 3—$3—14; L. 1. 40. Depth 
of body 24, length of head 22 in length of body. Snout 2 
longer than diameter of eye, which is 43 in length of head. 
Interorbital region flat, its width about § of length of head. 
Maxillary extending to below middle of eye, the width of 
its distal extremity 2 of the eye; lower jaw the longer. 
Preopercle with 3 strong antrorse spines on the lower 
border; subopercle denticulated ; upper opercular spine 
much the longer. Scales of cheeks, opercles, nape, and 
breast much smaller than those of the body ; lateral line 
tubes simple, short anteriorly but gradually increasing in 
length so that posteriorly they extend nearly along the 
entire scale. Dorsal originating in advance of base of 
pectoral ; 5th. dorsal spine highest, 23 in length of head 
and a little more than the highest soft rays; 10th. spine 
nearly as high asthe 2nd, 3 of highest soft rays: 2nd. anal 
spine very strong, higher than the 3rd, and than the highest 
dorsal spine, the rays about as high as the 2nd. spine: 
caudal truncate, 43 in total length: pectoral with 16 rays, 
3 of length of head and longer than the ventral, which just 
reaches the vent. Dark olive brown above the lateral 
line, the trunk and tail with about nine narrow gray bands, 
which are inconspicious anteriorly ; below the lateral lne 
the gray predominates the dark markings taking the form 
of seven or eight irregular, transverse, slightly oblique 
bands. any two of which may be wholly or partially con- 
nected, and which only become annular on the tail: sides 
of head with three longitudinal series of brown spots, the 
first from below the eye to the preopercular border, whence 
it curves upwards behind the eye; the second from the 
maxilla to the middle of the base of the pectoral ; the third 
from the angle of the mouth to below the same; chin 
blackish ; a black band behind the chin and a pair of 
similar spots below the corners of the mouth; opercles 
