ON SIX NEW OB BABE QUEENSLAND El SEES.— OGILBY. 
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which are blackish), throat and abdomen smoke-brown. Vertical fins purple, the 
dorsal edged with white, the width of the band diminishing from the front ; pectorals 
uniform ; outer soft ray of ventral dull blue, the others brown transversely barred 
with whitish undulse. 
Described from two specimens, 78 mifiim. long, collected at Masthead Island 
by Mr. H. A. Longman. 
CHEILODIPTERIM. 
AMIA NEMATACANTHA sp. nov. 
(Plate XXII, fig. 1.) 
Depth of body 2-38, length of head 2*86, height of spinous dorsal 2*28, length 
of caudal 2-82, of pectoral 348, of ventral 4-83 in length of body. Length of snout 
3-93, diameter of eye 2*36, width of interorbit 3-96, length of maxillary 2-04, height 
of soft dorsal 143, of anal 142 in length of head. 
Body ovate and strongly compressed, the dorsal and ventral contours about 
equally rounded : caudal peduncle stout, its least depth 2-37 in the depth of the 
body. Upper profile of head undulous, the nape without median ridge. Snout with 
convex profile, its length 1*66, that of the convex interorbital width 1-7 in the 
eye -diameter ; maxillary notched posteriorly, extending to below the middle of the 
eye. Inner limb of preopercle entire, outer serrulate at the angle and below. 
D. vi. i 8. No procumbent dorsal spine ; the four middle dorsal spines fila- 
mentous ; the second longest reaching when laid back to beyond the base of the 
soft dorsal ; spine of soft dorsal much stronger than those of the spinous dorsal, its 
length 1 *55 in the first ray, which, with those that immediately succeed it, are also 
more or less filamentous. A. ii 9. Second anal spine, 1*34 in that of the soft dorsal 
and 1*66 in its first ray. Caudal fin deeply emarginate. Pectoral long, extending 
to beyond the vertical from the anal spines. Ventral long, 1-3 in the pectoral, not 
quite reaching to the anal. 
Pale yellow ; the head and anterior^part of the body /dotted with^black 
{vrjfxa, gen. x'Ty/xaTo?, thread ; aKavOa , spine). 
Total length of type 45 millim. 
Six specimens of a small cheilodipterid, collected by Dr. J. R. Tosh at Darnley 
Island, were received, but unfortunately with two exceptions they were in bad 
condition. The best example has been chosen as the type, and is here described 
and figured. Reg. No. I. 13/1273. Queensland Museum Collection. 
