BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 93 
and abdominal region violet bronze ; middle of sides silvery : 
fins yellow : iris silvery (gallinago, a snipe). 
Type in the collection of the Amateur Fishermen’s 
Association of Queensland. 
Total length 123 millimeters. 
Described from a fine specimen obtained at the Tweed 
Heads by Mr. Dallas Beal, in May, 1907, and kindly pre- 
sented by him to the Association’s Museum. 
This species is certainly distinct from Waite’s Macror- 
hamphosus elevatus, from which it may be distinguished by 
the fewer dorsal and anal rays; the more elongate body, 
the shorter second dorsal spine, which originates much more 
anteriorly than in southern specimens, in which—according 
to Waite’s figure—the origin is equidistant from the eye 
and the tip of the middle caudal rays, etc. 
FAMILY SERRANID A. 
EPINEPHELUS RAYMONDI sp. nov. 
Dotted Grouper. 
D. xi 17; A. ii 9; Sc. 19-94-32. Depth of body 
24, length of head 23 in the length of the body. Snout 
7 longer than the diameter of the eye, which is 4? in the 
length of the head. Interorbital region feebly convex, 
its width 74 in the head. Nostrils approximate, the an- 
terior valvular. Lower jaw slightly projecting ; maxillary 
extending to below the posterior border of the eye, the 
width of its distal extremity rather more than half the 
diameter of the eye. Teeth in two series on each side of 
the mandible ; canines small. Vertical limb of preopercle 
convex, evenly and finely serrated, the angle rounded and 
armed superiorly with four stronger serre, the lower limb 
entire; opercular spines equidistant, the lower much 
further back than the upper; opercular flap obtusely 
pointed, its upper border linear. Scales mostly ciliated, 
those of the head (except the opercle), the nape and a grad- 
ually narrowing area of the back from an eye’s width behind 
the opercular flap to the base of the 8th dorsal spine, and 
the pectoral and thoracic regions deeply imbedded. 
Gill-rakers 12 on the lower branch of the anterior arch, 
the longest 3 of the diameter of the eye. Dorsal fin ori- 
ginating a little in advance of the base of the pectoral 
