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are fewer scales. The Chinese fish has light ventrals and anal, but these fins are dark 
in A . papuensis ; again the dorsal fin of the former is light whereas in the latter 
it is dark. Bloch’s figure 21 of Anthias polymnus shows a white band round the caudal 
peduncle, probably a juvenile character which disappears with age ; it has also 
dark fins and a rounded caudal. Linnaeus’ original description of Perea polymna 22 
does not enable me to state with certainty whether Bloch’s and Jordan & Seale’s 
identifications are correct, but Linnaeus’ “ f asciis 3 albis ” exclude Amphiprion 
papu ensis from co ns ider at ion . 
Bleeker 23 has figured two specimens of so-called Prochilus polymnus. His 
figure 8 seems to represent the true A. polymnus but figure 7 approximates 
A . papuensis, but it shows a dark soft dorsal and larger scales. He later 24 
recognised four varieties of this species, but the names he uses for them may have 
to be restricted further when more is known of the geographical races or varieties 
of this and allied species. 
Amphiprion mccullochi sp. nov. 
Amph r prion melanopus Ogiiby, Austr. Mus. Mem. ii, 1889, p. 64. Id. Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus. v, 
1904, pp. 168 & 208. Lord Howe Island. Not A. melanopus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. 
Ned. Ind. iii, 1852, p. 561. Amboina. 
Amphiprion McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mag. i, 1921, p. 34 (habits). 
D.x/15-18 ; A.ii/13-16. 
Dorsal, pectoral, ventral, and anal fins black ; caudal whitish. Caudal fin 
more or less emarginate, the lobes sometimes pointed. In a large series of specimens, 
one young one (Austr. Mus. No. I. 5392) has the caudal black like the other fins, 
whilst another (I. 5730) has lighter pectorals, but these are exceptional. Opercular 
band not nearly reaching the top of the nape, except in very young specimens : 
it is sometimes absent in adults. A vertical band across the middle of the body, 
and another one across the caudal peduncle in the young. 
In Amphiprion melanopus Bleeker, with which A. mccullochi has been 
confused, the dorsal is yellowish, not black, and the opercular band extends to the top 
of the nape. When Ogiiby, and later Waite, recorded this species from Lord Howe 
Island, they noted several differences between it and typical A. melanopus but did 
not propose an alternative name. Amphiprion mccullochi has been brought alive 
from Lord Howe Island to Sydney and may be seen in the Taronga Park Aquarium. 
The holotype of Amphiprion mccullochi is an Australian Museum specimen, 
78 mm. in length to the end of the middle caudal rays ; Regd. No. Ia. 1962. 
It was collected at Lord Howe Island by my late senior colleague, Allan Riverstone 
McCulloch, to whose memory I dedicate the species. 
Actinicola percula (Lacepede). 
“ Tetragonopterus cinereus Icevis ,” &c., Klein, Mis. Pise, iv, 1749, p. 38, No. 5, pi. xi, fig. 8 (fide 
Bloch , 1797). Pre - Linnean . 
21 Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische vi, 1792, p. 103 (fide Sherborn, Index Animalium) : Iehthyologie, 
ix, 1797, p. 89, pi. cccxvi, fig. 1. East Indies. 
22 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 291, No. 8. Indies. Idem., Gmelin, ibid. ed. 13, 
i, 3, 1789, p. 1313. 
23 Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. ix, 1877, pi. cccc, figs. 7-8. 
21 Bleaker, Natuurk. Verh. Hoik Maatsch. Wetensch. (3) ii, 6, 1877, p. 28. 
