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NEW OB LITTLE KNOWN FISHES 
Numerous specimens of this fine callionymid were collected by 
Messrs. Wild and Broadbent in September 1S92 ; they are in bad 
condition. The species has not been noticed since. 
The handsome species here described is closely allied to the 
Japanese Callionymus lunatus Schlegel,* which differs from it in 
the following characters: — the head is apparently much less 
depressed, the lower preopercular barb is small and basal, the 
occiput is smooth, the gill-openings are round and nearer to the 
origin of the spinous dorsal than to the eye, only the first dorsal 
spine is filiform, the last ray of the soft dorsal and anal fins is not 
produced, or only slightly so in the adult male ; the spinous dorsal 
has a black ocellus posteriorly in the male, while the membrane of 
the first spine is light colored in the female. 
In this connection it may be interesting to mention that within 
the last two years I have handled three fine male examples of the 
little known Dactylopus dacti/lopus (Cuvier & Valenciennes) t, all 
from Moreton Bay. Two of these are in the State Museum, the 
third in that of the Amateur Fishermen's Association, to whom it 
was presented by Mr. Matthew Colclough of Wynnum. Hitherto 
the species has been known only from the Celebes and Amboina. 
* Faun. Japon., Pise. p. 155, pi. lxxxviii, fig. 4, 1845 ; Jordan & Fowler, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., xxv, 1903, p. 949, fig. 5. 
t Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, p. 310. 
