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posterior ones, none of which is produced. Pectoral broad and slightly falcate, 
the fifth ray longest and reaching to the level of the anal origin. Ventrals 
considerably shorter than pectorals and barely reaching vent. Caudal forked, 
almost entirely covered by scales. 
Colour. — Mr. T. C. Marshall, of the Queensland Museum, made notes on 
the colours of the fish when it arrived at Brisbane, frozen in ice, from 
Townsville, as follows : — 
“ General colour rose doree. Colour of the back along top of head 
to tip of snout victoria lake. The dark shades of the back merged 
laterally into rose doree passing into eosine pink on the belly. Operculum 
mars yellow fading on the ventral surface to strawberry pink, which is 
the same colour as the preopercle. Eye peach red encircled with narrow 
border of cadmium orange. Inside of mouth, vomer, palate, etc. cream 
white faintly tinged with pink. Spinous dorsal with the spines blackish 
flushed between with scarlet. Soft dorsal maroon with flushes of scarlet. 
Anterior half of pectorals maroon, and rose doree on their posterior 
half. Ventrals and anal rose doree basally, passing into blackish on their 
outer edges. Caudal darker rose doree somewhat narrowly edged with 
black. Head with several small wavy lines and blotches of dark 
lavender, thickest in the preorbital areas. Each body scale with a 
boomerang-shaped patch, lighter than surrounding colour giving the 
fish a decidedly spangled appearance. 
Colours taken from Bidgway’s Color Standards and Nomenclature, 
1912.” 
After preservation in formalin, the general colour is dull greyish becoming 
whitish or yellowish on sides of head and body. Eins dark greyish, the 
lower parts of the pectorals and ventrals white. Inner axil of pectoral orange, 
or yellow, meeting the blackish dark area on the rays. Eye bluish. Teeth 
and inside of mouth white. The scales of the upper part of the body each 
with a pearly central spot. These spots form rows on the sides, until, towards 
the belly, the light areas form bands which are broader than their greyish 
interspaces. No dark blotch on sides below dorsal fin. 
Described and figured from the holotype of the species, a specimen 
514 mm. in standard length or rather more than two feet in total length. 
Locality . — Helix Beef off Townsville, North Queensland. Presented by 
Mr. George Coates. Queensland Museum regd. no. I. 4977. 
Affinities . — This species does not seem to agree with any in Bleeker’s 
“ Atlas Ichthyologique ” or in Fowler’s recent key. 5 
6 Fowler, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 100, xi, 1931, p. 86. 
