NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN FISHES IN THE 
QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
By J, Douglas Ogilby. 
Ijst the following paper will be found descriptions of four genera 
and sixteen species of fishes, all of which — with the exception of 
Ostichthys australis (Castelnau) — are considered to be new to 
scieuce. Excluding Anyperistius, which is founded on a New 
Gruinea plotosid, Sphyr&na waitii, hitherto only recorded from the 
New South Wales Coast, Ostichthys spiniceps from the 8011th Seas, 
and Holocentrus angustifrons from New Britain, all these genera 
and species belong to the Queensland fauna. 
The proposed new genera are as follows — 
i. Nemapteetx; fam. Siluridce ; type Arias stirlingi Ogilby, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxiii, 9. xii. 1898, p. 281.* 
ii. Anyperistius ; f fam. Plotosidce ; type A. perugice Ogilby, 
nom. nov. for Eumeda elongata Perugia, Ann. Mus. Genov., 
(2) xiv, 1894, p. 552, not of Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. Wales, iii, 1878, p. 144, which is Neosilurus Jiyrtlii 
juv. 
iii. Jenynsella. ; fam. Aplochitonidce; type J. weaiherilli ; v. infra. 
iv, Squalomugil ; fam. Mugilidce ; type Mugil nasutus de Vis, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vii, 1882, p. 621 (iv. 1883). 
The species described below are as follows — 
1. Tachysurus broadbenti; fam. Siluridce ; Cape York, N.Q. 
2. Neosilurus mediobarbis ; fam. Plotosidce ; loc. ign. 
3. Neosilurus robustus ; fam. ead. ; Keppel Bay, S.Q. ? Neo- 
silurus Jiyrtlii x Tandanus tandanus. 
4. Jenyistsella. weatherilli ; fam. AplochitonidcB ; Enoggera 
Creek, Brisbane, S.Q. 
* The type specimen is from the Adelaide River, Northern Territory, but there is 
a small example from North-Eastern Queensland in the State Museum. 
f Boulenger (B. M. Catal. Fish., ed. 2, i, p. 269) has altered the orthography of 
G-unther's name Anyperodon to Anhyperodon ; this is unnecessary, if not absolutely 
incorrect, as the word is formed like similar Greek compound words, such for 
instance as ep (3 aros. 
