SOME NEW OE LITTLE-KNOWN AUSTRALIAN FISHES.— OGILBY. 
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ON SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN 
AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 
By J. Douglas Ogilby. 
(Plates XXIX-XXX.) 
In the following pages there will be found descriptions of a new genus 
and five new species of Queensland Fishes, as well as redescriptions of three 
others, which for some reason are interesting. They are as follow : — 
1. Physodon taylori sp. nov. Galcidce, 
2. jMelanot^enia MACCULLOCiii sp. uov. AtJwrinidcB. 
3. PsENES HiLEii sp. iiov. ^ f roniateidce. 
4. Plectoriiynchus multivittatus (iMacleay). Pomadasidce. 
5. Reganicutiiys iNtAGNiFicns gen. et sp. nov. ? Fempheridm, 
6. Asterropteryx semipunctatus Iluppell. Elcotridce, 
7. Jh.ENNius ixNTERMEDius sp. UOV. Blenniidce. 
8. Spheroides MULTiSTRiATUS (Ricliardsoii) . Tetraodoniidce. 
The three beautiful illustrations in this paper were kindly drawn by Mr. 
Allan R. McCulloch, of the Australian iMuseum, Sydney, to whom we here tender 
our grateful thanks.^ 
Family GALEID^. 
PHYSODON TAYLORI sp. nov. 
Type locality: — Townsville, N.Q. 
Body moderately slender and compressed, the vent slightly premedian, 
its contour between the eye and the first dorsal convex. Head about one eighth 
wider than deep, its length to the first gill-slit 6*1, to the last 4-8 in the total 
length. Snout rather short and obtusely jminted, depressed, its preoral length 
1*33 time the ramal length of the upper jaw, a little more than the width of the 
mouth, and one tenth less than the space between the eye and the first gill-slit. 
Oro-narial interspace half the distance of the nostril from the tip of the snout, 
which is one sixth more than the interna rial width, 1*2 in the space between the 
nostril and the angle of the mouth, and 1-55 in that l)etween the outer angles of 
the nostrils. Width of nostril a little less than the eye-diameter; two small 
triangular valvules, the outer the larger, near the inner angle of the nostril 
anteriorly. Eye vertically elliptical, three tenths nearer to the mouth than to 
the nostril, and midway between the tip of the snout and the first gill-slit, its 
have great pleasure in supplementing Mr. Ogilby ’s remarks. From time to time the 
•Queensland Museum has been indebted in more than one respect to Air. AlcCulloch, and I wish 
wery heartily to record my appreciation of his valuable assistance. — B. Hamlyn-IIarris. 
