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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Family CHROMIDJE. 
Genus MECiENICHTHYS Whitley. 
Meccenichthys Whitley, gen. nov supra , p. 218. Orthotype, Heliastes immaculatus Ogilby. 
Mecsenichthys immaculatus (Ogilby). 
Heliastes immaculatus Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales x, 3, “ 1886 ”= Dec. 21, 1885, p. 446. 
Shark Reef, Port Jackson. Type in Austr. Mus., Sydney. 
Range. — New South Wales ; Southern Queensland. 
Genus CHROMIS Cuvier. 
Chromis Cuvier, Bull. Soc. Sci. Philom. Paris, Oct. 1814, p. 88 (fide Sherborn, Index Animalium). 
Not Chromis Plumier 1803, non-binomial (fide Sherborn) and not Cromis Browne 1789, 
non-binom. Preoccupies Chromis Hubner 1820, a genus of insects, and Chromis Gray, 
Cat. Fish. coll. Gronow Brit. Mus., 1854, p. 149, a genus of Pomatornid fishes. Type by 
tautonoiny Spams chromis Linn am s. 
“ Les Heliases ” Cuvier, Regn, Anirn. ed. 2, ii, April 1829, p. 180. Vernacular. 
He liases Cuv. & Vah, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, July 1830, p. 494. Logotype, H. msolatus, figd. on pi. 
cxxxvii ; designated by Valenciennes, Diet. Univ. d’Hist. Nat. vi, 1845 (reissue, 1861), 
p. 503. - Idem , Voigt, Das Tliierreich (Cuvier) ii, 1832. p. 247. 
Heliasus Griffith, Anim. Kingd. (Cuvier), x, 1834, p. 161. Ex Cuvier, v.ernac. 
Heliastes Lowe, Trans. Zoo]. Soc, Loud., June 1839, p. 177, and Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit, Mus. 
iv, 1862, p. 60. Emend, pro . Heliases Cuv. & Val. 
Heliazes Valenciennes in Webb & Berthelot Hist. Nat, lies Canaries (Iclith.), 1843, p. 27 ( fide 
Sherborn, Index Animalium). 
jSTote. I regard as probably distinct from Chromis, the following nominal 
genera j Hoplochromis Fowler, Ayresia Cooper, Furcaria Poey = Demoisellea 
Whitley, and Onychognathus Troschel = A gripopa Whitley. For references to 
literature on these, see Fowler & Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 100, vii, 1928, p. 30, 
and Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus. xvi, 6, 1928, pp. 295-297. 
Chromis nitidus (Whitley). 
Tetrad rachnvum nitidnm Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus. xvi, 4, March 28. 1928, p. 219, pi. xvii, fig. 3. 
Hayman I., Queensland. Type in Austr. Mus., Sydney. 
Range. — Queensland . 
Note. — One from Hervey Bay in the Queensland Museum ; Regd. No. /. 3481. 
Chromis hypsilepis (Gunther). 
Heliastes hypsilepis Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, July 1, 1867, p. 66. New South Wales. 
Type in British Museum. 
Range. — New South Wales. 
Note. — Allied to Chrowns dispilus Griffin (Trans. N. Z. Inst., liv, Dec. 14, 
1923, p. 254, pi. xxv), in which the males are said to be less deep-bodied than the 
females. 
Chromis klunzingeri sp. nov. 
Heliastes hypsilepis Klunzinger, Sit-zb. Akad. Wiss. Wien lxxx, 1, 1879, p. 398. Not H. hypsilepis 
Gunther 1867. King George’s Sound, W. Australia. 
Range. — West Australia. 
