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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
tubes profusely branched, and, except a few posteriorly, not extending to the border 
of the scale ; accessory scale of ventral long and lanceolate, longer than the eye- 
diameter. 
D. xiii 14 ; A. ii 14 ; P. 19. Last dorsal spine longest, 1*66 in the fifth and 
longest soft ray ; length of soft portion of fin 2-05 in that of the spinous, its outer 
border acutely pointed, extending to above the middle of the caudal fin. Caudal 
forked, with broadly rounded lobes, the middle rays 1'85 in the upper and longer 
lobe. Anal fin conterminous with the dorsal, the second spine as long as or longer 
than the last dorsal spine and 1*66 in the sixth and longest ray, which, though as 
high or nearly as high as the soft dorsal, does not reach so far back. Pectoral fin 
one fourth longer than the head, the fourth ray longest, reaching to the tenth or 
eleventh body-scale. Ventral nearly as long as to a little longer than the pectoral, 
the outer ray produced, extending nearly to to slightly beyond the origin of the anal, 
and twice as long as the spine. 
Gill-rakers 5 + 12, rather short and stout, the inner margin spinulose, the 
longest 3*5 in the eye -diameter and 2*2 in the longest fringes. 
Upper surface of body plumbeous or greenish gray, shading gradually on the 
sides into the silver-gray of the belly, many of the scales above the lateral line with 
a more or less conspicuous silvery spot or vertical bar ; body with seven black cross - 
bands, the first from the nape to the axil of the pectoral ; the second from the bases 
of the first and second dorsal spines, behind the base of the pectoral, to the abdomen ; 
the third from the fifth and sixth spines beneath the third quarter of the appressed 
pectoral ; neither of these two cross the ventral surface ; the fourth from the ninth 
and tenth spines below the tip of the pectoral to the vent, these three encroaching 
on the dorsal fin ; the fifth between the last dorsal spines and the anterior anal 
rays ; the sixth between the last dorsal and anal rays, on both of which it extends ; 
and the last and least conspicuous, which forms a complete ring round the peduncle 
immediately in front of the caudal fin, and is chiefly noticeable as two black pre- 
caudal spots, the one on the upper the other on the lower edge of the peduncle. 
Head and throat like the back, with scattered silvery spots and bars, which some- 
times, especially below, almost obliterate the ground color. Iris dark blue. Dorsal, 
anal, and ventral fins black, with the base and, in the case of the two former, the 
produced rays filaceous gray, as also are the caudal and pectoral fins. (Named for 
my friend Mr. James Palmer, chief of the telegraph station at Bulwer, M.B.,* and 
one of my best and most enthusiastic collectors.) 
Total length to 170 millimeters. 
Range (as at present determined) : — Moreton Bay and its immediate neighbour- 
hood. 
* The Moreton Bay Telegraph Station has just lately been removed from Bulwer 
to Cowan Cowan, and I seize this opportunity to wish Mr. and Mrs. Palmer all happiness and 
success in their new home, which will, let us hope, prove as fertile a collecting ground as that, 
which they have now left. 
