50 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
G-ill-rakers 5 x 13, the longest 2 in the eye-diameter. 
Dark brown, with a large round blackish spot between the 
pectorai fin and the lateral line. Cheeks paler, with an oblique 
blackish bar from below the middle of the eye to the angle of the 
inner preopercular ridge ; lower surface of head and throat pale 
yellow. Dorsal, anal, and ventral fins black, the foimer broadly 
edged with yellow ; caudal and pectorals uniform yellow. 
Described from a specimen, measuring 84 millim., captured at 
Sandgate by Mr. G-. Shaw ; Cat. No. A.F.A.Q. Mus., 1221. 
SEKRANLDiE. 
EPUSTEPHELTJS ESTUAEJTJS (Macleay). 
Serranus estuarius Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, viii, 1883, p. 200 : 
Mary River. 
SPOTTED RIVER COD. 
D. xi 14 to 1(3 ; A. iii 8 ; P. 19 : Sc. 18 to 20/108 to 116/40 to 
44 ; L. 1. 60 to 64. Depth of body 3'35 to 3'45, length of head 2*66 
to 2'8, of middle caudal rays 3"95 to 4*15, of pectoral fin 4 to 4*3, of 
ventral 5*3 to 5*5 in length of body. Length of snout 375 to 4*05, 
diameter of eye 6"2 to 6*55, width of interorbit 5 - l to 5 75, length of 
maxillary 2, longest dorsal spine 29 to 3'1, longest anal 39 to 4'35 
in length of head. 
Body elliptical; caudal peduncle about as deep as long, its 
least depth 2 55 to 2'75 in the depth of the body. Upper profile of 
head linear and moderately oblique ; width of preorbital 1*8 to 2 in 
the eye-diameter, which is 1"55 to 1"75 in the length of the snout 
and 1*1 to 1'8 in the flat interorbital region ; nostrils subequal; 
lower jaw projecting ; maxillary extending to below or beyond the 
vertical from the posterior border of the eye, the width of its distal 
extremity L33 to 1*55 in the eye-diameter. Lateral mandibular 
teeth biserial anteriorly ; canines moderate. Vertical limb of 
preopercle convex and serrated ; angle rounded, not or but slightly 
produced, and armed with 3 to 5 strong spines; upper opercular 
spine rather nearer to the middle and inserted further forward than 
the lower spine ; opercular flap pointed, its upper border linear or 
feebly concave. Lateral scales ciliated, those of head, nape, throat, 
breast, abdomen, and a narrow strip along the bases of the vertical 
fins cycloid ; upper half of maxillary with or without a band of 
minute scales. 
