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MEMO IBS OF THE QTJEEN SLANT) MUSEUM. 
EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND. 
Part I. — Family PEMPHERIDyE. 
By J. Douglas Ogilby (Ichthyologist). 
Les Pempherides Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 1831, d. 296. 
Kurtina part., Gunther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 508. 
Kurtidce part., Gunther, Zool. Rec., vii, 1870, p. 91 (name only)* ; Day, Fish. India, pr. 2, 1876, 
p. 174. 
Pempheridoidei Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., ix, 1877, p. 5. 
Pempheridx Jordan & Evennann, Fish. North & Mid. Amer., pt. 1, 1896, p. 977. 
THE BULLSEYES. 
Body strongly compressed, covered with moderate or small scales. Lateral 
line extending on the caudal fin to the tips of the middle rays, the tubes simple and 
straight, not extending to the border of the scale. Head almost wholly scaly, with 
short snout and narrow preorbital, the mucous system well developed. Mouth 
terminal and little protractile, with wide, very oblique cleft, the premaxillaries 
forming the entire dentigerous border of the upper jaw ; no supramaxillary. Den- 
tition weak ; small teeth always present on the jaws, vomer, and palatines. Nostrils 
double, superolateral, contiguous, open, nearer to eye than to tip of snout. Eyes 
lateral. Bones of head feebly armed. Dorsal fin single, short, falciform, the spines 
slender and graduated, adnate to one another and to the first and longest ray ; no 
procumbent spine in front of the dorsal. Caudal more or less emarginate, with pointed 
lobes and scaly base. Anal much longer than the dorsal, the spines short, stout, 
and separate. Pectorals asymmetrical, inserted below the middle of the body. 
Yentrals thoracic, approximate, pointed, with i5 rays, inserted below the pectorals. 
Gill-openings wide, gill-membranes separate, free from the isthmus ; pseudo- 
branchiae present ; gills four, a slit behind the fourth ; gill-rakers spinulose ; pharyn- 
geal bones separate. Stomach caecal ; intestinal canal convoluted. Premaxillary 
processes short ; supraoccipital crest high and delicate ; coracoids much dilated ; 
scapula with a small foramen. Vertebrae 24 (10 4- 14) : the caudal rather elongate ; 
ribs normal, narrow and compressed; the anterior sessile, the last five inserted 
on well developed parapophyses. ( 7 ; a small fish, now unidentifiable, 
quoted by Athenaeus from Numenius.) 
* Not having access to the work in which Steindachner published his description of Para- 
priacanthus I am unable to say whether he was the first author to associate Kurtus and Pempheris 
under the family name Kurtidce , but such is possibly the case. 
