ICKTH VO LOGICAL M IS( 'ICLLANEA . 
9 
The late A. R. McCulloch’s Check-List of the fishes recorded from 
Australia, recently issued as a Memoir of the Australian Museum, embraces the 
Queensland fish-fauna and serves as an up-to-date basic catalogue. Several 
expeditions and groups of private individuals have made extensive collections 
in Queensland, notably on the Great Barrier Reef, in the last five years, and 
reports on them bv various authors have appeared in the Memoirs of the 
Queensland Museum and the Records of the Australian Museum. An account 
of the fishes of the Capricorn Group was given in the fourth volume of the 
Australian Zoologist. In 1926, two parts of the Biological Results of the 
Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. “ Endeavour” were published, a 
number of Queensland fishes being dealt with in them. Amongst the smaller 
contributions to Queensland ichthyology should be mentioned the description, 
by Nichols & Raven, 1 of a new Rhadinocmtrus from the Babinda district and 
the renaming of an Aseraggodes by Chabanaud. 2 In Australia, Hamlyn- Harris 3 
has discussed the efficacy of mosquito-controlling fishes in Queensland, and 
Bancroft 4 has continued his valuable observations on the Lungfisb. In addition 
to these technical accounts, popular articles have appeared in the Australian 
Museum Magazine, wherein Hhnantura granulate, (Macleay) was recorded from 
Queensland. Passing references to fishes from Queensland are made in the 
excellent work on the ichthyology of the Philippines and Oceania being done 
by Fowler 5 and his associates, and also in the latest volume of Weber & 
Beaufort’s Fishes of the Indo -Australian Archipelago. Several Queensland 
Chsetodontidse are included in Aid’s monograph 6 of that family, and the 
Rhinobatidse have been revised by Norman. 7 
Family ATHERINID.E. 
Pranesus ogilbyi gen. et sp. nov. 
Eye very large. Head with scales above and on cheeks. Rami of 
mandibles not elevated posteriorly. Premaxillaries slender, not dilated posteriorly, 
and without a notch along their sides. Premaxillary processes short, their 
length less than half diameter of eye. Fine teeth on jaws and vomer. Gill- 
rakers slender and numerous. Body moderately robust, completely scaly. Anus 
situated between adpressed ventral fins. Dorsal fins widely separated. One 
anal spine. Caudal forked.. 
This new genus is practically identical with Hepsetia as defined by 
Jordan & Hubbs, 8 but their conception of Hepsetia Bonaparte 9 does not appear 
1 Nichols & Raven, American Museum Novitateg 2!)(S, Feb. 1. 1928, pp. 1-2, fig. I. 
2 Chabanaud, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) v, Feb. 1, 1930, pp. 241-243. 
3 Hamlyn-Harris, Proe. Roy. Soc. Qld. xli, 3, July 26, 1929, pp. 23-38, pis. i-viii. 
4 Bancroft, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales liii, 3, July 16. 1928. pp. 315-317. 
5 Fowler, Mem. Bern. Bish. Mus. x, 1928 ; Fowler & Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 100, 1929. 
6 Ahl, Arehiv. Naturg. Ixxxix, A, 5, May 1923, pp. 1-205, pis. i-ii. 
7 Norman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1926, pp. 941-982. 
8 Jordan & Hubbs, Stud. Iclith., Monogr. Atherin. 1919, pp. 14, 31. 
s Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Jtal. iii, Atherina hepsetus, e. 1836, p. 2 ( fide Sherbom). 
