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rufous rings ; free ventral ray with alternating rings of gold 

 and purple, the united rays blackish or dark olive- green, 

 with one or two large pearly basal spots. 



In the female the membrane of the spinous dorsal is 

 golden brown, mth darker marblings and irregular light 

 blue spots and short bands ; basal two thirds of soft dorsal 

 with elongate dark brown blue-edged spots between the 

 rays, the marginal third more faintly banded but profusely 

 freckled with blue : inner third ot anal golden brown with 

 elongate pearly spots, the rest of the fin smoky, with dark 

 blue black-edged spots and lines. 



Total length 156 millim. 



From the Molucca Seas to South-Eastein Queensland 

 (Stradbroke Island and Wynnum). 



Described from a fine Moreton BsbV example in the 

 A.F.A.Q. Museum; Cat. No. 684. 



Callionymus dactylopus (Bennett) Cuvier and Valenciennes, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 1837, p. 310— Bleeker, Nat. 



Tijds. Ned. Ind., iii, 1852, p. 559 : Amboina. 

 Dactylopus bennetti Gill, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 



p. 130. Name only. 

 Vulsus dactylopus Giinther, B.M. Catal. Fish., iii, 1861, 



p. 152 : Amboina ; Celebes. 

 Dactylopus dactylopus Ogilby, Ann. Queens!. Mus., No. 9, 



1908, p. 38 : Moreton Bay. 



Note. — Callionymus achates De Vis (Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales), is founded on a female of C. calauropomus. 



BLENNIID.E. 



Petroskietes furtivus (De Vis). 



D. xii, 21 or 22 ; A. i 23 to 25 ; C 13 ; P. 13 ; V. 2. 

 Depth of body 5-6, length of head 5, of anal fin 2, of middle 

 caudal rays 5-75, of pectoral fin 5-1, of ventral 5-1 in 

 length of body. Length of snout 3-75, diameter of eye 3-85, 

 width of interorbit 9-5, longest dorsal ray 1-35, longest anal 

 1-85, depth of peduncle 2-3 in length of head. 



Head obtusely rounded in front, its width 1-5, its 



depth 1-15 in its length ; snout short and blunt ; upper 



jaw the longer ; interorbital region convex ; cleft of moutk 



extending to below the anterior border of the eye. 



24 2 



Dentition— 1. — ; C. - ; upper canine strongly hooked^ 



