1G 
MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Dorsal and anal with dense scaly sheaths. Long axillary scales to ventrals. 
Pectorals pointed, reaching level of vent. Caudal forked, but damaged. 
Colour evidently silvery with black area at tip of first dorsal. Lye 
dark bluish with bronze crescent on upper half of iris. 
Described and figured from the holotype of Genes splendens De Vis, 
kindly loaned to me for the purpose by Mr. H. A. Longman, to whom my 
thanks are hereby tendered. This specimen is 151 mm. long from snout to 
hypural joint or about 1\ in. in total length. Queensland Museum Registered 
No. I. 11/94. Collected by Kendall Broadbent at Cardwell, North Queensland. 
Variation and Affinities. — I have collected a series of young specimens of 
this species amongst mangroves at Low Isles, North Queensland. Ihese show 
slight variation. Depth a little more than 3 in length to end of middle caudal 
rays in young, but 3 or less when larger. D. ix/10 ; rarely with 9 or 11 rays. 
Second dorsal spine a little over 2 in depth. L. lat, 41 ; rarely 40, sometimes 
42 or even 43-44 tubes. Upper caudal lobe subequal to head. Colour bright 
silvery and without spots on body, but half -grown specimens sometimes with 
indistinct bars of darker scales. Tip of first dorsal black, some dark spots 
on dorsal rays. 
Genes splendens differs from G. darnleyensis (Ogilby) 31 in having a larger 
eye, shorter pectoral, and larger scales. Genes vaigiensis Quoy & Gaimard 32 
is said to have 11 dorsal and 8 anal rays. Queensland records of Genes oyena 
(Forskaal) and G. philippinus Gunther 33 may refer to Genes splendens. From 
the former, as figured by Klunzinger, 34 the Queensland species appears to differ 
in having smaller teeth, ten longitudinal rows of scales below lateral line, and 
less even profile, whilst from Gunther’s species it is distinguished by having 
different scale-counts. 
Genus PAROCHUSUS nov. 
Orthotype, Genes profundus Macleay. 30 
Back elevated at origin of dorsal. Depth about one-half standard 
length. No filamentous dorsal spines. Pectoral reaching to above anal fin. 
This genus also includes Genes abbreviatus Bleeker, 36 the dental characters 
of which are discussed in the eighth volume of the Atlas Ichthyologique, and 
Genes cheverti Alleyne & Macleay, 37 but these species have fewer lateral line 
scales than the genotype. 
31 Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. ii, Dec. 10, 1913, p. 80, pi. xxiii, as Xyst.cema. Type from 
Darnley Island in Queensland Museum (No. I. 13/1074). 
32 Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uran. Physic., Zool., 1824, p. 292, Rawak & Waigiou. 
33 Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, p. 258. Philippine Is. 
34 Klunzinger, Pische Roth. Meeresi. 1884, p. 48, pi. v, fig. 1, as 0. aeyena. 
35 Macleay, Proe. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales ii, June 1878, p. 350, pi. vii, fig. 3. Port Darwin. 
30 Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. xxiii, 1850, Monoid., p. 1 1, and Nat. Tijdsehr. Ned. Ind. i, 1850, 
p. 103. Batavia. 
37 Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales i, Feb. 1877, p. 272, pi. vii, fig. 1. 
Cape Grenville, Queensland. 
