94 DESCRIPTION OF NEW QUEENSLAND FISHES 
(above the base of the middle opercular spine); 4th, 5th 
and 6th rays highest, ¥ of the length of the head and as high 
as the middle soft rays ; Jast spine shorter than the penul- 
timate, +3; of the head. 2nd anal spine a little higher than 
the 3rd, 2¢ in the length of the head. Caudal fin rounded, 
1 of the length of the body. Pectoral rounded, with 17 
4 
rays, 2 of the length of the head. Ventral much shorter 
4 
than the pectoral, reaching to the vent, its length 1¢ in that 
of the head. Pale lilac, each scale of the body and opercles 
with a central white dot; body with a series of dark 
blotches which form six irregular bands running obliquely 
forward from the dorsal profile : soft dorsal and anal fins 
lilac with a broad purplish basal band; caudal tipped with 
purple ; pectoral with a reddish brown basal spot ; ventral 
marbled light and dark lilac. (Named for my friend and 
colleague, Mr. Audrey Raymond Jones, without whose 
hearty cooperation I would have found it well nigh im- 
possible to carry out successfully my multifarious duties 
to the Association). 
Type in the collection of the Amateur Fishermen’s 
Association of Queensland ; Cat. No. 678. 
Total length 203 millimeters. 
Coast of Southern Queensland. 
Described from a specimen captured by Mr. C. Dahl 
at Cape Moreton, in May, 1907, and presented by him to 
the Association’s Museum. 
SCIAINID i. 
PSEUDOMYCTERUS gen. nov. 
Body elliptical, strongly compressed dorsally. Scales 
rather large, adherent, ciliated, with a wide spinulose 
submarginal band. Lateral line complete, extending on 
the proximal half of the caudal fin, the tubes straight with 
« single pair of predistal opposing tubules, not reaching to 
the border of the scale. Head rather small, scaly except 
the anterior half of the snout and preorbitals. Mouth 
inferior, the snout obtuse, projecting well beyond the upper 
jaw and bearing on its antero-inferior margin four short 
broad papilliform processes, which separate and conceal 
five large pores; maxillary entirely concealed beneath 
