NEW OR INSUFFICIENTLY DESCRIBED FISHES. 43' 
free tip dilated, the third ending with the membrane and not dilated. 
Second dorsal with a slight downward obliquity, the upper rays 
much the longest, 2*8 in the snout and 1*7 in the spine, the lower 
rays very short, almost rudimentary. Caudal fin feebly emarginate, 
1*25 in the longest dorsal rays, the peel uncle, which is covered with 
soft naked skin, being the only unarmored portion of the body. 
Anal fin rounded, the rays directed downward, the anterior middle 
longest, 1*4 in length of the caudal. Length of head behind the 
anterior border of the eye 1"95 in the space between the opercle and 
the pectoral, the outer border of the fin truncate. Ventral inserted 
on the suture between the fifth and sixth ventral (second and third 
abdominal) plates, and midway between the lower soft dorsal ray and 
the orbit, its length in the male twice the eye-diameter. 
Life-colors : Silvery ; a deep red band from the base of the 
snout to the eye, followed by a golden spot on the temporal region ; 
continuous with this is a red or orange band, which bisects the 
opercle, passes through the base of the pectoral, and extends along 
the side to the root of the terminal spine, the posterior portion 
being curved upward and sometimes supplemented by a short 
parallel superior band ; abdominal ridge pale yellow, crossed by 
eight to ten oblique red bars directed downwards and backwards. 
Preserved in a weak formalin solution the greater part of the 
body becomes a dull red gold, which deepens towards the ventral 
surface, upon which the sutures and the abdominal bars stand out 
conspicuously as silvery lines and bands ; dorsal plates and terminal 
spine dull yellowish gray ; throat and breast silvery. Proximal 
half of snout golden brown, with a narrow darker bar from the eye 
through the nostrils ; suborbital region, base of snout, and edge of 
subopercle silvery, the rest of the opercles bluish black. 
Dry examples are a dull grayish silvery, the region between the 
ventral and anal fins dull yellow, and the proximal half of the snout 
as in the preceding. 
Total length 300 millim. 
Coast of Southern Queensland between Moreton Bay and 
Hummocky Island, common on sandy or muddy ground in water 
varying from 7 to 33 fathoms. 
