BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 35 



Upper surface pale violet with two broad darker cross 

 l)ands descending on the sides to the ventral edge ; these 

 bands are much more pronounced in the young, growing 

 gradually fainter with advancing age and becoming in 

 large examples merged in the darker tone of the ground 

 color ; back prettily blotched and lined with deeper violet 

 and purple ; under surface uniform pinkish white or fawn 

 color. Upper surface and sides of head pale yellowish 

 brown spotted with violet : preopercular spine sandy yellow. 

 JFree nuchal spine black ; detached spine and 1st dorsal 

 dusky ; 2nd dorsal and caudal hyaline, the rays with alter- 

 nate dark and light bands ; anal and ventrals like the 

 lower surface, the former with a dark basal blotch between 

 the 4th and 6th rays ; pectorals violet, profusely spotted 

 with purple, some of the terminal spots united to foim 

 transverse bars. {TrpoKvrj, a swallow.) 



Coast of Eastern Australia, not uncommon. 



Described from five specimens, 100 to 390 millim. 

 long, taken in Moreton Bay ; type m the A.F.A.Q. Museum ; 

 Cat. No. 248. 



This species differs greatly from Ehisinus macracanthus,* 

 from which it may always be distinguished by the want of 

 the pectoral ocellus. 



SOLEIDiE. 



BrACHIRUS SALINARUM Sp. nOV. 



D. 66 ; A. 53 : Sc. 84. Depth of body 2-90, length 

 of head 5-00 in the length of the body. Length of snout 

 3-00, diameter of eye 8*00, length of right pectoral 2*50 in 

 the length of the body. 



Snout projecting well in front of the mouth ; upper 

 eye fully one half its diameter before the front of the lower ; 

 width of inter orbital region one sixth more than the dia- 

 meter of the eye. Scales on both sides finely ctenoid ; no 

 enlarged nuchal scales ; lips and under surfaces of snout 

 and interopercle profusely papillose. 



* Jordan and Richardson [loc. cit.) wrongly name this species Ebisinus 

 theiropthalmus, the synonymy being as follows : — 

 Dactylopterus macr acanthus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vii, 1854, p. 



449 : Celebes. 

 Dactylopterus cheirophthalvius Bleeker, ibid., p. 494, Banda. 



The month's mentioned by those authors refer to the date of writing 

 not of publication, and have, therefore, no scientific value. 



