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MEMOmS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MVSEUE, 
Bangc : — From the Queensland Coast it was first definitely reported by 
^raeleay, whose specimen came from the Endeavoiir River, N.Q.; Kent extended 
its range southward to J^owen, M.Q;., off which the “ Endeavour subsequently 
trawled 18 young examples in 14 fathoms on fine sand and nnid. To these, as 
previously stated we (‘an add Tlmrsday Island, Raine Island, B.R., and the 
ifiirnett River, M.Q., this being the most southerly locality of which we have 
any note on our coast. Beyond our shores Stead has figured a specimen sent to 
him from ^^the Evans River, a little to the north of the Clarence River/ ^ N.S.W., 
thus adding many miles to its southerly range, and finally Kent claims rather 
vaguely to have seen it in AVest Australian waters, and Gunther as vaguely 
records it from tlie North Coast. In the Archipelago it was recorded nearly two 
centuries ago by Ahalentyn from Amboiua and later from the Aloluccas and les 
cotes des Torres Australes’’ by/lenard. and its abundance and wide distribution 
tliere can not be better shown than l)y the following list of the islands from 
which Bleeker received it — AVaigiou, Ceram, Amboina, Batch ian, Obi, Celebes, 
Bali, ]3orneo, Java (whence A^alenciennes had already recorded it), Banea, 
Bintang, Rio, Nias, and Sumatra, while Cantor added Pinaug and Giinther the 
Atalay Pcnisnla. It ranges northward tlirough Ihe Philippines to Formosa and 
China, and westward through the Indian Seas to the Persian Gulf {Boxilenger) , 
the Red Sea {Ttilppell) , and Madagascar {Bleelcer), From the Pacific it has been 
recorded from the Hawaiian and Society Groups and should, therefore, be 
general ly distributed. 
Dimensions : — On the Australian Coast Stead has recorded it as attaining 
a length of 45G millim.; our largest specimen, from Raine Island, measured 428, 
but it is said to grow to 900 and even according to Day to 1,500 millim. 
Illustration : — The specimen, of which Miss Clark has given us so beautiful 
a figure, measured 216 millim. and came from the Burnett River. 
ALECTIS CILIARIS (Bloch). 
Zeus ciliaris Bloch, Ansi. Fiseh., vi, 1788, p. 20, pi, xci; Bonnatei’re, Encycl. Wetli., Tchth., 
1788, p. 71, pi. Ixxxix, fig, 372j Giiieliii, Linna'us Syst. Tv^at., ed. 13, i, 1789, p. 1223; 
Schneider, in Bloch, Syst. Iclith., 1801, p. 91; Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, pp. 
570, 572; Shaw, Gen. ZooL, iv, 1801, p. 283. 
Scomber ;flla'mentos^ls Wnngo Park, Trans. Linn. Soe. London, iii, 1797, p. 36; Schneider, 
ihid., p. 31. 
OaJius viresrcHs part. LactaR'de, ibid., ]>p. 583, 581. 
Zeus vomer Pnssell, Pish. yizagai)atani, i, 1803, p. 46. Not of Linnaeus. 
Chewoola-l^arah Russell, ibid., pi. iviii. 
Zeus criniiits .Mitchill, Anier. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xi, 1826, p. Ill, pi. opp. p. 1. 
Blepharis fasciatus Ruppell, Atlas Fiseb. Roth. Weer., 1828, p. 129, pi. xxxiii, fig. 2. 
BJepharis indicus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 154; Valenciennes, 
in Cuvier Regne Anim., ed. Illustr,, 1836, Poiss. pi. Iviii, fig. 3; Sdilegel, Faun. Japon., 
Pise., dec. 7, 1815, p. 113, \)\. lx, fig. 2; Richardson, Rej). Ichth. Ghina and Japan, 1815, 
p. 271. 
