DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF 

 TEUE BARPiIMUNDI, OSTEOGLOSSUM 

 JARDINIL EliOM NORTHERN QUEENS- 

 LAND. 



By W. SAVi: LE-KENT, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



CoHJriSSIONKIi OF riSHEKIES, QUEENSLAND. 



[Jlfdil hrjnrc tlic Iloifdl Siirictij i,J <Jiiri'nsh( ii<l , Drcniihrr llt'i, 18&I,] 



The cliief interest attached to the record of the new species 

 of fish now under notice is associated with the circumstance 

 that up to the present date but three species of the same genus- 

 have been reported, and these from remarkably remote locaHties, 

 The one species famihar to many members present is the Queens- 

 land (McoijloHsinn Lcichiirdii, popularly known in the district 

 from whence it was first obtained as the Barrimundi, or Dawson 

 Kiver Salmon. The second species, (htroiilnssKui ftiriiiDsuiHr 

 inhabits the region of the Malay Archipelago, having been 

 obtained from both Borneo and Sumatra. The third variety ,- 

 < >stcniil(issiiiii hicinJiusuiii hails from the more distant locality of 

 British Guiana. Two other fish only physiologically related tO' 

 < tsteiii/lossuiii and referal)le to the same family group, are as yet 

 known to exist, these being the giant ArapaiiiKi (jiiiax of Brazil, 

 which may attain to a length of fifteen feet, and lli'tvrotis nilntivus- 

 of tropical Africa. All of the known species of the family group' 

 of the (htc(H]los)sid<r are highly esteemed for food and the addition 

 of a new form to the Queensland fauna is consequently a matter 

 of congratulation from an economic as well as from a 

 scientific standpoint. 



