EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.--OGILBY. 
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wliicli is so eousj)ieuous in the young of the western form, is wholly lacking in 
the eastern. The segregation of the two forms under a varietal nomenclature 
may, therefore, be advisable,- they would then stand as Caranx speoiosiis 
-speciosus (Forskal) and C. s. obtusiveps Macleay. 
Illustration : — Our figure is taken from a Darnley Island specimen in the 
■collection of the Queensland ^Museum. It measures 323 millim. and w^as the gift 
of Dr. J. R. Tosh. Reg. No. I. 13/1007. 
CARANGUS BUCCULENTUS (Alleyne & Maeleay). 
'Caravx hiiccidentus Alleyne & Macleay, T^roc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Males, i, pt. 4, March, 3 877, 
p. 326, 1)1. xi. fig'. 1 ; Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893.^ App. A., p. 369. 
Caremx nohiUs Kent, ibiil.. pi. xlvii, fig. 3. Xot of Macleay 1881. 
WIDE-MOUTHED TREVALLT. 
(Plate XXII.) 
Type locality : — Cape Grenville, X.Q. 
Body ovate and compressed, the dorsal contour elevated and evenly 
rounded from the frontal region to the peduncle; ventral contour sublinear and 
slightly declivous from the chin to the anal, Avhence it rises somewhat abruptly 
to the peduncle; Avidth of body 2-55 in ils depth, which is 24 in its length and 
three tenths more than the length of the head; abdominal region long, its length 
1-15 in that of the anal fin; depth of caudal peduncle 1-6 in its width, which is 
1-25 in the eye-diameter. Head large, ils length 3-1 in that of the body; width 
of head 1-85 iii its depth, which is sTil)equal to its lengtli; cranio-nuchal keel little 
developed. Snout rather long, its i>roril(; linear and strongly acclivous to the 
level of the nostrils, above which there is an appreciable gil)bosity, its length 
3-05 in that of the head; eye large, with the adipose lid little developed, its 
diameter 3-8 in the length of the head and 1*25 in that of the snout; interorbital 
region broadly rounded, its width about one eighth more than the eye-diameter. 
Lower jaw projecting; maxillary extending to Ijelow the hinder border of the 
pupil, its length 2-75 in that of the iiead, the width of its distal extremity 1*5 
in its distance from th(‘ eye and half of the eye-diameter. Angle of preopercle 
feebly crenulate. 
Upper jaw Avith a broad band of A'illiform teeth and an outer roAA' of 
enlarged AAodely set conical teetli; Ioaati* jaAA' AA'itli a single series of strong 
but rather smaller and more closely set teeth; no peree})tible canines; small teeth 
on the vomer, palatines, pterygoids, and tongue, those of the former in a 
triangular patch. 
Cheeks, temples, and u])per edge of opercles scaly, the rest of the head, 
the nuchal ridge, and the breast naked; mucous canals of preorbital coarse, of 
preopercle fine, both rather sparsely branched; nuchal canal conspicuous, 
