NOTES AND ILLVSTEATIONS OE QUEENSLAND FlSEES.—McCULLOCE. 49 
Colour, — Head and body dark brown, the sides between the pectoral fin 
tinged with deep red. All the fins except the ventral very dark, almost black 5 
a black blotch between the dorsal spines, and some narrow oblique dark lines on 
the anterior rays. 
Described and figured from a specimen 87 mm. long. 
Colour variety A. — A second specimen differs in being much lighter in 
colour, with distinct markings. In life, the head and anterior portion of the 
body was deep pink, the rest of the body being sage green. A dark blue line 
extends round the lower and hinder margins of the eye, and there are two 
similar marks on the cheeks. Pectoral and ventral pale pink. Dorsal bright 
green, margined with a yellow and blue line ; a dark spot is present between the 
spines, and there are longitudinal series of spots near the base of the fin. Anal 
similar to the dorsal. Caudal sage green with an oblique scarlet and blue 
marginal band on each lobe. D. iii/35; A. iii/20. L. lat. 42-|-14; 50 rows of 
scales between the gill-opening and the hypural. 
Colour variety B, — A third example is intermediate between the first and 
second specimens, being lighter like the last but having none of its striking 
colour markings. D. iii/36; A. iii/20. L. lat. 43+12; 50 rows of scales between 
the gill-opening and the hypural. 
These three specimens differ slightly from Steindachner^s brief descrip- 
tion in their proportions and fin formula, but they vaiy somewhat among 
themselves, and I have little doubt that they are correctly identified. Their 
remarkable colour variation suggests that they represent more than one species, 
but as I found them living together in the same pool, and there being no 
important structural differences between them, I prefer to regard them as one. 
The name Polyacanthus queenslandice, Kent, was founded on a colour 
sketch of a fish from Adolphus Island, Torres Strait. It has the general form 
of a PseudochromdSj while its pink and grey colouration partially corresponds 
to my variety A. 
Zjoc . — ^Jlasthead Island, Capricorn Group, off Port Curtis, Queensland; 
in a pool on the coral reef. Steindachner ’s type was taken at Port Denis (Port 
Denison, Queensland). 
PSEUDOCHROMIS NEBULOSUS, de Vis. 
(Plate XVI, Fig. 2.) 
Onar neJjuJosumj de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix., 1885, p. 875. 
D. iii/27; A. iii/14; P. 18; V. i/5; C. 17. L. lat. dex. 32+9; sin. 27+9. 
Head 3, depth before the ventrals 3 in the length to the hypural. Snout 1.2, 
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