BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 29' 



marginal silvery or lilac band, the spines with alternating 

 bars of dark brown and pearly white ; soft dorsal lilac, 

 profusely freckled with rufous, the base, an obliquely oval 

 anterior spot, and the last rays blackish : anal fin gray, 

 spotted and freckled with dark brown ; anteriorly with 

 two pairs of broad alternate white and brown bands : caudal 

 lilac, with a dusky base and a broad submarginal black 

 band, the marginal band also freckled with black : pectoral 

 gray, with two broad dark cross bands on the upper half, 

 the lower half with ocollated violet dark-edged spots, the 

 base fuscous spotted with lilac : outer half of ventrals 

 with two black cross -bands or irregularly spotted and 

 lined with black ; an oval blackish spot on the base anteriorly. 



Total length 200 millim. 



Coast cf Southern Queensland (Moreton Bay). 



Described from two examples measuring respectively 

 165 (type) and 202 millimeters. 



SCOKP^NOPSIS MACROCHIR Sp. nOV. 



D. xiilO; A. iii 5 ; P. 16(1+4+11): Sc. 6-41-14 ; 

 L.l. 22. Depth of body 2-35, length of head 2-35, of caudal' 

 fin 4*15, of pectoral 2*7, of ventral 3' 85 in length of body. 

 Length of snout 3, diameter of eye 4*75, width of interorbit 

 3*9, length of maxillary 1*9, longest dorsal spine 2* 8'), 

 longest anal 2 in length of head. 



A deep naked pit below the anterior border of the 

 eye ; lateral interorbital ridge inconspicuous ; no median 

 ridge ; lower ]aw the longer, without symphysial pro- 

 tuberance ; maxillary extending to below the hinder border 

 of the eye, the width of its distal extremity 1'5 in that of 

 the interorbit. Nasal, preocular, supraocular (2, the posterior 

 large with a serrated upper edge), postocular (2 small and 

 erect), exoccipital, nuchal (2), tympanic, and parietal (4, 

 the last 3 united by a sharp continuous ridge) spines present. 

 Preorbital with a small median spinous point, from which. 

 radiate three low ridges, one directed downward, one for- 

 ward, and one backward, each terminating in a short stout 

 spine ; suborbital ridge with 3 strong spines ; preopercle 

 with 4 spines, the upper strongest and double ; opercle 

 with 2 widely divergent ridges, each terminating in a small 

 spine. Occipital groove deep and transversely oblong, 

 bordered anteriorly by a low arcuate ridge. Head and body 

 without cirri, except a pair of small ones anteriorly on the 



