ON SIX NEW OB BABE QUEENSLAND FISHES.— OGILBY. 
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edged and tipped with dusky ; a blackish spot in the axil of the pectoral, (darn- 
ley ense, belonging to Dam ley Island.) 
Described from four specimens, measuring from 145 to 222 millim., collected 
at Darnley Island by Dr. J. R. Tosh. Reg. No. of type in Queensland Museum, 
1.13/1074. 
POMACENTRIM. 
GLYPHISODON Lacepede 1802.* 
GLYPHISODON PALMERI sp. nov. 
(Plate XXII, fig. 2.) 
Depth of body 1*66 to 1*7, length of head 3*4, of longest dorsal ray 3 to 3*15, 
of longest anal 3*15 to 3-25, length of caudal 2-7, of pectoral 2*7 to 2*75, of ventral 
2*55 to 2*8 in length of body. Depth of peduncle 1*65 to 1-7, length of snout 3 to 
3*2, diameter of eye 3*2 to 3*25, width of mterorbit 2*8 to 2*9, longest dorsal spine 
1*55, longest anal 1*55, middle caudal rays 1*45, length of ventral spine 1*66 in length 
of head. 
Body elevated, the dorsal contour evenly arched from the nape to the middle 
of the soft dorsal, beyond which it descends somewhat abruptly to the peduncle ; 
ventral contour as evenly but more deeply arched from the isthmus almost to the 
peduncle, the depth of which is 3*4 in that of the body. Head one fourth deeper 
than long, its upper profile linear and strongly acclivous, forming an obtusely rounded 
angle with that of the nape. Snout short, much broader than long, rounded ante- 
riorlv, its length one tenth more than the eye and a trifle less than the strongly convex 
inte. rbital width. Cleft of mouth small and oblique, the maxillary extending to 
slightly beyond the vertical from the nostril, which is on a level with the middle 
of the eye and nearer to it than to the tip of the snout. Teeth in a single series, 
broad, compressed, and incisor-like, with the cutting edge emarginatc ; free tip of 
tongi rounded. Infraorbital ring narrow, its depth below the middle of the eye 
4, the of the preorbital 2*7 in the eye-diameter, which is 1T5 in that of the interiorly 
rounde * cheek. 
’ales in 28 transverse series between the angle of the opercle and the root of 
the c z il, in 18 horizontal series between the base of the dorsal and the vent, 5 of 
whic 1 .re above the lateral line ; cheek-scales in 4 series ; infraorbital ring scaly 
thro 7 aout its entire length ; scales of upper surface of head extending forward to 
between the nostrils, leaving the rest of the snout and the lower jaw r naked. Lateral 
line wdth 20 or 21 tubular scales, ceasing below the middle of the soft dorsal, the 
* I am unable to accept Forskal’s Abudejduf , both because of its manifest barbarity, and 
because I cannot believe that, a writer so enlightened, and so far in intellectuality beyond his 
immediate colleagues, ever intended that it should be used generically ; but rather employed it 
as a stop-gap until he should decide on a more suitable name, similarly as other Arabian vernacular 
:names were used by him. (See Jordan & Snyder, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, pp. 606-7). 
•I am authorized to state that Mr. McCulloch is in perfect agreement with me on this point. 
