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MEMO IBS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
ICHTHYOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By J. Douglas Ogilby. 
During the past year a number of fishes have been forwarded from Damley 
Island by Dr. J. R. Tosh, among which are the six following additions to the 
Australian fauna : — 
1. Nebrius concolor Riippell. This is useful as a confirmation of Macleay’s 
record of its occurrence at Port Moresby, N.G. (v. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 
vii, p. 597). 
2. Platophrys pantherinus (Riippell). It is strange that no record of the 
presence of this fish in Australian or Papuan waters has hitherto been made, since 
it is apparently common at Damley Island, whence we have received six examples. 
3. Amphiprion bieasciatus (Bloch). One specimen. 
4. Eleria tala (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Two young fishes. 
5. Salarias alboapicalis Ogilby. Two beautiful examples, one adult (75 
millim.), the other half -grown. 
6. Lethrinus harak (Forskal). The only previous Australian record is the 
curt “ Aus Sydney ” in the Reise Novara, Fische, p. 81 ; as it has been shown that 
a number of species in that work were wrongly attributed to that locality, this 
record should be viewed with distrust. 
For the following six Damley Island is a new record : — 
1. Carythroichthys intestinalis (Ramsay). Previously recorded as C. 
waitei from Cairns Reef, Cooktown, N.Q., by McCulloch (v. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 
Wales, xxxv, p. 307). 
2. Cromileptes altivelis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Previously collected by 
McCulloch at Cairns Reef. 
3. Kyphosus cinerascens (Forskal). Recorded from Torres Strait as 
Pachymetopon squamosum by Macleay (Ibid., v, p. 407). 
4. Decapterus russellii (Riippell). A fine specimen gave me the chance 
of comparing the Mo re ton Bay fish, previously recorded as “ Decapterus ? lepto- 
somus Ogilby (List Edib. Fish. Moreton Bay, p. 2) ; and I am now convinced that, 
while differing from the latter, both specimens are identical with the former, and 
probably with Caranx ecclipsifer de Vis. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, p. 541). 
