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MEMOIMS OF TEE QUEENSLANE MUSEUM. 
Reg. Iso. in the Queensland JMuseuin of the specimen described* 
1. 14/1781. 
Measurements of a typical Queensland example: — See p. 116. 
Coasts of tropical aud subtropical Australia. From the Queens- 
land Coast I have seen four .specimens obtained in IMoreton Bay (2), Port Curtis 
(1), and Rockingham Bay (1). 
Dimensions; — Attains a length of 180 millimeters. 
Bemarks:— First described by Giiiither from specimems forwarded to the 
British iluseum by IMr. F. II. du Boidey from the North-West Coast of Aus- 
tralia, it next appeared at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, where Spalding 
collected four examples for the lion. Sir Wm. Jlacleay. Two years later Klun- 
zinger recorded it from the same locality. IMcCnlloeh mentions an example from 
Cape York. N.Q., in the Australian Museum. Our specimen is from Cardwell, 
N.Q., where it was collected by Mr. Kendall Broadbent, aud measures 150 millim. 
Filially McCulloch records it from Port Iledland, W.A. 
CHSTODONTOPLUS CONSPICILLATUS (Waite). 
Hotacanthus conspicillatiis Waite, Rcc. Austr. Mus., iii, pt. 7, 15 June, 1900, p. 203, pi. xxxv; 
id., ibid., v, pt. 1, 1903, p. 37, and pt. 4, 1904, p. 215. 
Hotacanthus (Chaitodontoplus) personifer McCulloch, Reo. West. Austr. Mus., i, pt. 3, p. 221, 
pl. xxxi. 
Type localiiies: — Lord Howe Island {conspicillatdis) ; West Australia 
{personifer) . 
Depth of body 1*8 to 2 in its length; dorsnl and ventral contours about 
equally elevated but not symmetrical, the former lim-ar and very strongly 
acclivous to above the imsterior border of the eye, thence coim^x to the 3rd dorsal 
spine, beyond which it is linear and feebly declivous to the middle of the soft 
dorsal, whence it curves evenly downward to the caudal peduncle; ventral 
contour convex to below the eye, thence linear and somewhat declivous to the 
anal fin, the base of which descrilies a long gentle upward curve to the peduncle; 
least depth of peduncle 8-45 to 8*7 in the length of the l)ody. Width of head 
1-5 in its lengtln which is 1-2 in its depth and 4-1 to 4*35 in the liody-length. 
Diameter of eye 1*1 to 3-2 in the length of the snout, which is 2-6 to 3-35 in 
that of the head; interorbital region as wide as or a little wider than and about 
as high as the eye-diameter. Lower jaw the longer; maxillary extending to 
below the anterior nostril. Preorbital without spines, its width 1*25 to 1-55 in 
the eye-diameter. Hinder liml) of preopercle inclined somewhat liackwards and 
evenl,y serrated, the spine 2 to 2-4 in the length of the head and not quite reaching 
to below the pectoral axil. 
Scales minute and strongly ctenoid, the exposed portion densely spinulose, 
the basal margin withoiit lobules. Lateral line incomplete, terminating in front 
of and rather remote from the end of the soft dorsal. 
