NOTES AND ILLUSTEATIONS OF QVEENSLANE FlSEES.^McCVELOCE. 53 
Colour . — Purplish brown on the upper half when fresh, the margins of 
each scale lighter; lower portion changing to deep violet pink, the centre of 
each scale darker and having a whitish vertical streak near its outer edge. Head 
similar to the body, the cheeks with a greenish tinge. Dorsal and caudal pinkish 
orange, the niembraiie between the rays dark purple. Pectoral, ventral, and 
anal rays pink, the membrane darker. After preservation the fish is almost 
uniformly purplish brown, the margins of the scales being lighter. 
Desci'ibed and figured from a single specimen, 545 mm. long, which 
differs in several of its characters from the very short description of Diacopus 
superhus, particularly in the size of the eye, armature of the preoperculum, 
and form of the anal spines. Castelnau’s type was taken in IMoreton Pay, w’here 
it was said to be known as the Red Pass, and was regarded as a good table-fish. 
Mr. J. D. Ogilby has examined a copy of my description and figure, and informs 
me that my fish is common on the Snapper-banks outside IMoreton Pay, and is 
often called Red Perch by Prisbane fishermen. 
This fish is very similar to Lutianus rubens, Macleay,^ but the scales of 
that species are somewhat smaller, there being fifty on the lateral line between 
the operculum and the hypural. The vomerine teeth form patch, 
the anal fin is rounded anteriorly instead of angular, and the caudal is more 
emarginate than in the specimen described above. 
Loc . — Near the mouth of the Clarence River, New South AVales. 
LUTIANUS AMABILIS, de Vis. 
YELLOW-BANDED HUSSAE. 
(Plate XVIIL) 
Oenyoroge amaMlis, de Vis, Proc. Eoy. Soc. Qld., i., 1884, p. 145. 
D. xi/14; A. iii/8; Y. i/5; P. 17; C. 17. L. lat. 52. Height of body 2.7 in 
the length from the snout to the hypural, and almost equal to the full length of 
the head. Eye 2.1 in the snout, which is 2.4 in the head. Preorbital 4.1, fourth 
dorsal spine nearly 3, and pectoral 1.12 in the head. 
Upper profile slightly concave on the snout, convex from above the eye 
to the first doi’sal spine. Upper portion of the head almost naked ; three rows 
of large scales on either side of the nape. Cheek scales in six rows. Maxillary 
reaching backward to below the anterior third of the eye. Pi^eopercular notch 
deep ; the posterior margin is minutely serrated, the lower angle produced 
somewhat backward and finely serrated. Operculum unarmed, its hinder lobe 
pointed. 
^ Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, viii., 1883, r*- 232. 
