ON SIX NEW OB BABE QUEENSLAND FISHES.— OGILBY. 83 
BOTHIMJ. 
PLATOPHRYS PENNATA sp. nov. 
Depth of body 1*88, length of head 3-66, of caudal fin 448 in length of body. 
Depth of peduncle 2*71, length of snout 4-22, diameter of eye 3*8, width of interorbit 
11*87, length of maxillary 2-71, of mandible 2*37, height of dorsal 2*24, of anal 2*53, 
length of left pectoral 1*36, of left ventral 2*53 in length of head. 
Body deeply ovate, the profile of the head from before the interorbital region 
evenly and strongly convex, as also is the snout in front of he rostrofrontal notch, 
which is deep. Mouth moderately arched, the jaws equal ; mental knob little 
developed ; maxillary extending to below the anterior border of the eye, the width 
of its truncate distal extremity 2*7 in its length. Lower eye about one third of its 
diameter in advance of the upper and a little longer than the snout ; interorbital 
region reduced to a narrow mostly naked furrow, its width 3-12 in the eye-diameter. 
Scales of colored side Ciliated, arranged in 80 transverse series above the 
lateral line, and in 20 horizontal series between the dorsal fin and the summit of 
the arch ; scales of blind side cycloid ; snout and mandibles naked ; a few scales 
superiorly on the maxillary. Depth of lateral line arch 2*4 in its length ; no subsidiary 
nuchal branch. 
D. 91 ; A. 73 ; C. 17 ; P. 14/11 ; V. 6. Dorsal fin originating on the blind 
side of the snout in front of the rostrofrontal notch, the third ray expanded and 
pinniform, much longer than the second or fourth, slightly longer than the post- 
median rays, and 2*1 in the length of the head. Caudal cuneate. Left pectoral 
with the base oblique, the upper rays longest, reaching well beyond the lateral line 
arch ; length of right pectoral 1*93 in that of the left, the middle rays longest. Ven- 
trals long, that of the eyed side inserted on the abdominal ridge, its base longer 
than and originating well in advance of that of the right fin ; left ventral subcon - 
tinuous with the anal, the middle rays longest, reaching the third anal ray. 
Gill-rakers rather short, stout, and acute, smooth, 10 on the lower branch of 
the anterior arch, the upper branch entire, the longest one fifth of the eye-diameter 
and one half of the longest gill-fringes. 
Light brown with three large blackish spots forming a triangle, one above 
and one below the middle of the appressed pectoral, the third on the lateral line 
about midway between the tip of the pectoral and the root of the caudal ; body with 
several series of smaller and fainter spots, arranged in a more or less regular trans- 
verse pattern. Vertical fins with a somewhat obscure series of dusky blotches * 
pectoral with broad darker and lighter cross-bands. 
Described from a single specimen, 170 millim. long, in the collection of the 
Amateur Fishermen’s Association of Queensland. 
