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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Parma oligolepis sp. nov. 
(PI. xxviii, fig. 1.) 
Hypsipops polylepis OgiJby, Commerc. Fish. Fisher. Qld. 1915, p. 55. Moreton Bay. Not Parma 
polylepis Gunther 1862. 
Parma polylepis McCulloch & Whitley, Mem. Qld. Mus. viii, 2, 1925, p. 166. 
D.xiii/19 ; A.ii/15 ; P.i/20 ; V.i/5 ; C.13. 23 tubes on l.lat. plus about 
7 punctured scales. L.tr. 4/1/13. 
Head (49 mm.) 3-3 in length to hypural joint (166). Depth of body (93) 1*7, 
and depth of caudal peduncle (26) 6*3 in same. Eye (12) equal to its distance from 
tip of preorbital process (12), 1*5 in interorbital width (18) and 4-0 in head. 
Upper profile of head evenly sloping, the lower profile convexly rounded. 
Head higher than long and longer than broad. Eye small. All opercles entire. 
Preorbital forming a broad process. Jaws subequal with thick lips. Maxillary 
not reaching vertical of anterior margin of eye. A single series of compressed teeth 
in each jaw. Five branchiostegal rays. Gill-membranes united across isthmus. 
Eleven gill-rakers on the lower limb of the first branchial arch, the median ones 
longest. Head scaly except for an area before the eyes, around the mouth, and 
along the preopercular margin. Some scales on the nape have small auxiliary scales 
between them, a rare feature in Australian Pomacentrids. 
Body ovate, compressed, covered with ciliated scales which are largest on 
the sides, and extend onto all the fins except the ventrals. The scales form dense 
sheaths at the bases of the unpaired fins and extend in rows between the rays ; 
minute scales also cover the proximal portions of the rays themselves. No scales 
on membrane between caudal lobes. Lateral line gently arched, composed of 23 
tube-bearing scales followed by a row' of punctured scales on the side of the caudal 
peduncle. The lateral line scales each have a rounded median lobe. Genital papilla 
present. 
Dorsal originating over the base of the pectoral and terminating a little 
behind the termination of the anal. The seventh to ninth spines are the longest. 
Soft dorsal high, pointed ; seventh and eighth rays longest. Anal similar to soft 
dorsal but with a rounded margin. Pectorals nearly as long as the head. Ventrals 
pointed, reaching the vent. Caudal lobes rounded. 
Colour, after preservation in formalin, fairly uniform brown, somewhat darker 
on the borders of the fins and the margins of the scales on the body. 
Described and figured from the liolotype, a specimen 166 mm. in length to 
hypural joint. (Qld. Mus. Regd. No. 1 . 2536 .) 
Locality. — Cape Moreton, near Brisbane, Queensland. 
Variation. — Two other specimens in the Queensland Museum show^ no 
important variation. No. 1.3429 from Bundaberg has D.xiii/20 ; A.ii/15; P.ii/19 ; 
L.lat. 22 tubes; Sc. 28 ; L.tr. 4/1/15: and No. 1.2171 from Green Island has 
D.xiii/19; A.ii/14 ; P.ii/18 ; L.lat. 23 tubes; Sc, 29 ; L.tr. 4/1/13. 
Range. — Queensland ; probably a coastal species. 
Parma oligolepis is readily distinguished from its congeners by its larger and 
fewer scales (29 or less transverse rows between operculum and hypural joint) and 
deep body. 
