MJiMOIES OF THE QEEENSLAyi) MVSEUM. 
absolute silence until Jordan and Evenuann (1) report that it is '' an excellent 
and valued food-fish.'’ To its exeellenee we can ourselves hear witness. 
liaiuje: — Wanner paids of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. On the Queens- 
land Coast it ot't'urs from south to nortli. and has l)een specially recorded from 
Southport and Moretou Pay. S.Q. (Of/ilby); I^eny Mauds, M.Q. (AUeyne ct 
Mach ay as C. ((h afalas) ; (Teveland Pay, X.Q. {KI anziaycr cind Taylor) ; Torres 
Strait [Maclcay) ; and Darnley Island (Tosh). Other Australian localities are 
Iloutman's Ahrolhos (lUcIiardson) and Fremantle (Waite), W.A. It has 
mtt yet been recorded from Xew South Wales, but the fact that it is by no means 
luu'ommon in (^>u(^ensland waters suggests its presence on the Xorthern shores of 
the ^lother State. AVith Tasmania’s pretensions we have already dealt. Passing 
northward Ave find it recorded from Port Aloresby, P.X.G., l)y Alacleay. In 
the Alalayaji subregioiy proceeding westward. Pleeker has la^ported it from 
Gorani. Waigiou, Ceram, Termite, Amboina, Celebes, Aladura, Porneo, Piliton, 
Java. Thousand Islands. Panca, Piutang, Rio, Sunda, Singapore. Sumatra, and 
Tanara (which last 1 am unable to locate) and Cantor from Piuang. Jordan and 
Richardson extended its range still further north through the Philippines to 
Formosa ; still again Avestward Ave find it inhabiting the seas of the Andamans, 
Ceylon, and the Indian Peninsula, and onward to the Seychelles, Mauritius, 
.Madagascar, and Alozamliique. till avc finally take leave of it in this direction in 
the typical Avaters of the Red Sea. To tlie eastAvard, ho\A*eA'er, although it has 
forced its Avay through the Tropical Pacific apparently to its idtimate limit, its 
course is not so readily traceable; Ciinther makes no mention of it in the Fisehe 
der Sudsee, but Jordan and Seale record it from Samoa, Fiji, and tlie IlaAvaiian 
Archipelago, Avhih‘ others report it from the Pacific Coasts of Alexico (Cape San 
Eucas) and Panama, but of thi‘se latter we shall liaA'e some I'emarks to make 
further on. 
I)i}}icnsio)fs: — While the largest specimen of which avc luiA’e any personal 
knowledge measured a little under 400 niillim., the spi'i'ies attains a much greater 
size on the Indian (hmst. Avlieiu'e specimens of S40 millim. haA'e been recorded 
In' C-iinther (1). and even up to Olo millim. by Day (1). 
EonaiTs: — According to the des(U'i{.)tion given by .Jordan and Evenuann 
(3) Ameri(*an exanqiles differ from ours in several imjmrtant characters. For 
instance the eastern form is much deeper, the depth of the i)ody being 2-33 to 2 
in its length in American and Hawaiian examjiles as against 24) to 2-4 in those 
from Australia and westward; the rule, howcAUW, is not without exceptions in 
both areas, for a('cording to Gill's description the typical C. panatnensis belongs 
to the slender form, Avhile the t\'pii'al (h ohiusiceps belongs to the deeper. 
Again the teeth in the young of tln^ eastern fish are said to be graiudar, aaMc 
in ours they are A'illiform. Lastly the beautiful coloi'-pattern of the caudal fin, 
AA"e have to thank Mr. ^tcCnlloeh for kindly verifying onr identification of this species 
with C. speciosn.9. Uy an examination of Macleay’s type. 
