DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW QUEENSLAND FISHES. 
By J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 
Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 
December 14th, 1907. 
In the paper which I have the honor of presenting to your 
Society to mght there will be found detailed descriptions 
of seven undescribed fishes from our coast, namely—l, the 
“slender dog-shark”’ (Scoliodon jordani) from the snapper 
banks outside Moreton Bay; 2, Howes’ needle-fish 
(Tylosurus impotens); 3, the ‘‘long-beaked  gar-fish ” 
(Hemirhamphus welsbyt) ; 4, the “sombre leather-jacket ” 
(Pseudomonacanthus melanoides); 5, the ‘* white-dotted 
grouper’ (Hpinephelus raymondi), from Moreton Bay ; 
6, the ‘small-toothed jew-perch” (Pseudomycterus 
maccullocht), from the Logan River; and 7, the ‘‘ Queens- 
land bellows-fish > (Macrorhamphosus gallinago) from the 
Tweed Heads. 
In addition I have the pleasure of adding.to the Aus- 
tralian fauna the showy clupeid known as the “ lady-fish ” 
(Albula vulpes), a fine specimen of which was captured 
along with sea mullet (Mugil dobula) at Southport on the 
13th of June, and having fortunately come under the notice 
of my colleague, Mr. A. Raymond Jones, was purchased 
by him and presented to the Museum of the Amateur 
Fishermen’s Association. A few days later a much larger 
example was taken at the same place, but falling into a 
dealer’s hands was cut up and sold by the pound. 
On the 26th of May, the members of the Brisbane 
Snapper Club were astonished to catch, on the large hooks 
and baits in use for snapper and kindred fishes, quite a 
number of mackerel (Scomber australasicus) ; this is the 
most northerly point at which this species has been obtained 
and forms a new record for Queensland. These shoals weer 
