REVISION OF THE 
dark brown marbled with lighter, which on the tail may take the 
form of irregular transverse bands ; below reddish brown, the under 
surface of the head penciled and dotted with pearl gray : dorsal and 
anal fins pale brown, with a marginal and some oblique bands darker 
brown ; caudal and pectorals similar with dark brown transverse 
bars; ventrals pearl gray, tipped and barred with brown. [Named 
for Mr. Kendall Broadbent, the noted Australian and New Guinea 
explorer and collector]. 
Type in the Queensland State Museum, Brisbane. 
Total length 255 millimeters. 
East Coast of Queensland (Oardwell and Bundaberg). Described 
from two specimens collected respectively by Mr. Kendall Broad- 
bent and Dr. T. H. May. 
II. CORYZICHTHYS gen. nov, 
Body cylindrical anteriorly, without scales. Three well-marked 
lateral lines, each of the pores with a cutaneous appendage. Mouth 
with moderate horizontal cleft, the jaws equal; maxillary extending 
to below the middle of the eye. Jaws, vomer, and palatines with 
narrow bands of small, cardiform teeth. Eyes rather large, 
superolateral. Opercle with two spines ; subopercle with two spines, 
the lower much the shorter, divergent, often absent. Grill-opening 
narrow, embracing the upper half of the pectoral fin only ; gill- 
rakers few, short, acute, and conical ; pharyngeal teeth unequal in 
size, acute, and cardiform. Dorsal fins with iii, 19 to 22 rays, the 
middle spinous ray the longest : anal fin similar to but shorter than 
the dorsal, with 15 to 18 rays: caudal fin free and rounded. No 
axillary pore. Interorbitai region deeply concave, the frontal ridges 
feeble; transverse ridge crescentic; occiput and basis cranii strongly 
ridged. Vertebrae 10 -f- 17 = 27. [/<opu£a, slime or mucus ; lx&vs, 
a fish]. 
Small voracious fishes from the shores of India, Malaysia, 
Australia, and New Guinea. The weaker dentition of the species 
belonging to this genus suggests that their food may principally be 
chosen from worms, sand-fleas, and similar soft organisms, while the 
more brilliant coloration which is often observable in individual 
specimens shows that they are not averse to living on coral reefs.* 
* While this paper was passing through the Press the Queensland Museum 
received from Mr. E. J. Banfield a beautiful example from Dunk Island, in which 
the richness of the various shades of brown, purple, and lilac is greatly accentuated, 
and which has in addition a brilliantly golden spot on each side of the head almost 
entirely covering the cheek and • preopercle, and three similar blotches on each side 
of the back. 
