EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.-^OGILBY. 
in considerable numbers by the Endeavour'’ during August IblO, lirst off Pine 
Peak, S.Q., and afterwards off Bowen, i\LQ., which is at present the most 
easterly station where it occurs, since it does not appear in Jordan and Seale list 
of the tishes found in the Pacific Islan<ls.“‘" It has not, so far as we are aware, 
been recorded from 1he East Coast of Africa, nor has it been obtained in the 
Indian Seas. We have, tlnu’efore, for this fish the extraordinary distribution 
of five widely sei)arated localities — ^Madagascar, the Seychelles. Java, China, and 
Eastern Queensland— between which it is unknown. 
Valenciennes states that it is a very wholesome fish (tres^hon 
poisson), and to us it ceitainly has every ai)pearance of being a good food fish. 
DintFimoHs : — Both Yalimciennes’ and Kner’s examples measiired 11 
inches, but the former remarks that it grows larger; Bleeker’s largest example 
of which we have cognizance was 350 millim. (about 13-8 in.) in length. 
Henun'ks: — ^A^alenciennes’ figure diffei's from our fisJi in several respects, 
which may be briefly referr(‘d to liere. even though some of them jnay be due 
to the greater age of his specimen. For ijistance : our fisii is (mnsiderably deeper 
than his. being 245 in the total length {i.c. with caudal) as against 2'()6 in his; 
Bleeker’s Batavian specimens are in some cases even more slender, Ihe propor- 
tional measurtmients being given as 2*()b to 3 in the leiigth; here again, how- 
ever, we find that some at least of Bleeker’s fishes were still larger than that 
of Valenciennes, and we know that in other carangids (the Iwo Alectis, Tri- 
cropterus forateri, (dc.) the law holds good— that the depth of the l)ody decreases 
with advancing age. .\gain both \ alencienues ami Bleekm* s fishes ueie much 
more robust tlian (oii’s, their width being given as one third of the depth as against 
one fourth in ours, a didVrence out of all proportion to the difference in actual 
depth. Again the ey(* is much too small in Valenei(n]nes’ figure, being shown 
along its greater diameter as but one fifth of the length of the head as against 
34 to 3*75 in ours and 3-5 to 4 in Bleeker's. Valenciennes, Kner, and Gunther 
give the Tuunber of dorsal rays as lb, but the former figures 2d as in m> laiger 
example, while the latter has merely coined his predecessor; P.leeker inadvert- 
ently omits all mmitiou of the fin-formuhv in the only paper to which we can 
refer. Lastly Valem'iennes’ illustration shows nearly the whole opercle scaly, 
which is certainly incorrect as regards our fish. Ihese differences, houevei, 
are not suffif'ienl to justify tlu' separation of 1he t\No forms, unless futuic 
investigation should prove them to b(‘ constant. 
CITULA AUROCHS sp. no\ . 
BLACK-CREvSTED TREVAET.Y. 
(Plate XXV.) 
Tppe Edgecumbe Bay, .M.Q. 
Body deeply ovate and strongly compressed, the dorsal and ventral 
contours siibs>'nnnctrii-al ; widtli of Ijocly 4-:>r, to 4-5 in its depth, which is 1-8 to 
1-9 in its leiis'tli and about five sixths iiioia* tliau the leiioth of the head; abdominal 
Fishes of Samoa,” in Bull. E. S. R>ur. Fisher. 
