NOTES AND ILLUSTEATIONS OF QUEENSLAND FISHES.— McCULLOCH, 47 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUEENSLAND 
FISHES. 
By Allan R. McCulloch, Zoologist, Australian Museum. 
(Plates XVI-XVIII.) 
By permission of the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 
Family PSEUDOCHROMIDIDaE. 
Genus PSEUDOCHROMIS, Riippell. 
Tseudochromis, Eiippellj Neue Wirbeltli. EiscliOj 1835, p. 8 (P. olivaceus, Kiippell). 
Assiculus, Eichardson, in Stokes, Discov. in Anstr., i., 1846, p. 492 (A. ’piinctatus, Eichardson), 
Onar, de Vis, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. Wales, ix., 1885, p. 875 (0. nehulosumj de Vis). 
Assiculus, Eichardson, is evidently identical with PseudocJiromis. The 
several characters relied upon by Eichardson to distinguish his genus are all 
more or less developed in different species of PseudocJiromis. 
A co-type of Onar nehulosum, de Vis, is in the Australian Museum 
collection, which does not differ from EiippelPs genus. 
PSEUDOCHROMIS PUNCTATUS, Richardson. 
Assiculus punctatus, Eichardson, in Stokes, Discov. in Anstr., i., 1846, p. 494, pi. ii., fig. 1. 
Pseudochromis Mulleri, Klnnzinger, Sitzb. Akad. "Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i,, 1879, p. 370. /d., 
Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, ix., 1884, p. 28. Id., Waite, Eec. Anstr. Mns., vi., 
190.5, p. 62. 
UicJilops filamentosus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, v., 1881, p. 570. 
Six examples, 53-89 mm. long, agree almost entirely with the description 
and figure of Assiculus punctatiis, as well as with P. mulleri and Cichlops 
filamentosus. Being in a better state of preservation than Eichardson ’s type 
specimen, they have the body thicker than his figure shows it to be, and the top 
of the head and nape flattened instead of sharp. Most of the dorsal rays are 
simple instead of divided, but the anterior portion of that fin was damaged in 
the type. In none of my specimens is the sub-opercular border crenulate as he 
described it, but they agree so ivell in all other details that I have no doubt they 
are correctly identified. 
They vary in colour, after preservation in formalin, from light to dark 
brown, with more or less numerous, dark (blue) dots on the head and anterior 
half of the body. A large black blotch is present on the spinous portion of the 
dorsal, and the remainder of that fin, together with the anal and caudal, may 
be nearly plain, or closely covered with minute ocelli. 
Loc. — Useless Inlet, Shark Bay, Western Australia. 
