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New record for Australia. This species has a wide tropical distribution. 
The typical Mauritius form has been figured from one of Nicholas Pike’s 
drawings by Gudger (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Iviii, 1929, p. 499, fig. 3) and excellent 
coloured figures have been given by Bleeker {loc. cit.) and Tanaka (Fish. Japan xv, 
1914, p. 250, pi. Ixx, fig. 247). 
My Queensland specimen looks most like the Japanese and it is possible that 
there are geographical subspecies of this fish with slightly different colour patterns, 
in which case the south Queensland specimens might well deserve a new subgeneric 
and a new subspecific name. 
The Australian Museum has specimens of conspicillum from Rennell, Solomon 
Islands, and Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 
Genus SUFFLAMEN Jordan, 1916. 
SUFFLAMEN FRAENATUS (Latreille). 
Batistes fraenatm Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. ed. 1, xxiv, 1804, Poiss. p. 74. Latiniza- 
tion of the vernacular Batiste bride'' Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. i, 1798, pp. 335 and 381, pi. 
XV, fig. 3. No locality (Comraerson). 
Batistes capistratus Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1804, p. 417, On “ Batiste bride Lacepede from 
Indian Seas. 
Batistes frenatns Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Ichth. 1845, p. 129, pi. lx (“China”). 
Batistes (Balistapus) frenaius Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. v, 1869, p. 114, pi. ccxxiii, fig. 2 
references and synonyms). 
One specimen (Qld. Mus. No. I. 5538) from Lodestone Reef, Townsville, 
Queensland, presented by Mr. G. Coates. 
General colour, in formalin, various shades of brownish grey. Teeth and lips 
whitish, mouth surrounded by a whitish ring, most strongly defined interiorly. An 
oblique white ” bridle ’’-stripe reaching backwards and slightly downwards behind 
mouth and ceasing before gill-opening. This stripe is joined to its fellow on the 
opposite side of the head by a white crossband around chin. Fins dusky, the caudal 
being dark grey (not yellow). 
The present species is often called capistratus but fraenalus is the earlier name. 
With reference to Shaw’s “ General Zoology,” Sherborn (Index. Anim. (2), i, 1922, 
p. cxv) wrote ‘‘dates practically unknown,” but I find that the fish parts were 
