92 DESCRIPTION OF NEW QUEENSLAND FISHES 
pearly white: anterior dorsal rays, outer and middle 
caudal rays, upper pectoral rays, and middle ventral rays 
dusky. (Named for Mr. Thomas Welsby, President of the 
Amateur Fishermen’s Association, and an enthusiastic 
supporter of all scientific work connected with marine 
zoology). 
Type in the collection of the Amateur Fishermen’s 
Association of Queensland ; Cat. No. 648. 
Length to 400 millimeters. 
Coast of Southern Queensland. 
Described from eight examples, measuring feast 280 
to 400 millimeters, obtained in Moreton Bay during June, 
1907, and presented to the Museum by Messrs. Thomas 
Welsby and Joseph Basile. They were very abundant 
until towards the close of the succeeding month, when 
they disappeared, and have not since been seen in our shops 
or market. 
MACRORHAMPHOSID Ai. 
MACRORHAMPHOSUS GALLINAGO Sp. nov. 
Queensland Bellows-fish. 
D. iv 11; A. 16. Depth of body 33 in its length, 
13 in the length of the head, and 1,3, in the trunk and tail. 
Length of head 24 in that of the body. Eye large, its dia- 
meter 34 in the length of the snout and rather more than 
1 of that of the head ; snout 3} in the length of the body. 
Interorbital region convex, its width ? of the diameter 
of the eye. First transverse branch of the lateral line 
with its inferior portion very short and bent strongly for- 
ward so as to form an angle of about 15° with the horizontal 
branch. Second spine of first dorsal fin long, strong, and 
posteriorly serrated, extending backwards when depressed 
to the anterior fourth of the caudal fin, its height 34 in the 
length of the body and 1% in that of the trunk and tail ; 
its origin is midway between the base of the miiddle caudal 
rays and the posterior border of the eye; soft dorsal fin 
acutely pointed, its base } of its height and # of the base of 
the low anal. Caudal sonnei! 23 in hes length of the 
snout. Pectoral fin pointed, with 14 rays, the upper the 
longest, 4 of the snout. Brick red above ; cheeks, opercles, 
