SOME I^EW OE LITTLE-KEOWN AUSTEALIAN FISHES.— OGILBY. 
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Etymology: — Latin, magnificus, magnificent. 
Eeg. No. of type in the Queensland Museum — I. 14/1803. 
Measurements of type in millimeters: — 
From tip of snout to that of outer caudal rays . . 265 
From tip of snout to that of middle caudal rays . . 216 
From tip of snout to base of middle caudal rays . . . . 162 
Widtn of body . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 
Depth of body . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 
Length of head . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 
Depth of caudal peduncle . . . . . . . . 29 
Width of head . . . . . . . . . . . . 36-5 
Depth of head . . , . . . . . . . . . 73 
Length of snout . . . . . , . . . . . . 16.3 
Diameter of eye . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-2 
Width of interorbit . . . . . . . . . . 15*8 
Length of maxillary . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 
Width of maxillary . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 
Length of spinous dorsal . . . . . . . . . . 29 
Length of soft dorsal . . . . . . . . . . 47 
Last dorsal spine . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 
Middle caudal rays . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 
Outer caudal rays . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 
Length of anal . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 
Last anal spine . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 
Length of i)ectoral . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 
Length of ventral . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 
Range : — Coast of North Q;ueensland (Thursday Island). 
Roio acquired : — Collected and donated by Captain Donald IMcDonald. 
Family ELEOTRID^. 
ASTERROPTERYX SEMIPUNCTATUS Ruppell. 
Asterropteryx semimf'n<^f^aius Riippell, Atlas riseh. Roth. Meer., 1828, p. 138., pi. xxxiv, fig. 4^ 
Gunther, Brit. Mns. Catal. Bish., iii, 1861, p. 132; Kuer, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Iviii, 1869, 
p. 329; Klunzinger, Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 484; Giinther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, 
pt. 5, 1877, p. 187, pi. cxi, fig. D. 
Eleotris cyanostigrna Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., viii, 1855, p. 452; Playfair,' Proc. Zool. 
Soc., 1867, p. 862; Bleeker, in Pollen & van Dam, Faun. Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., 
p. 103. 
Brachycleolris cyanosiigma Bleeker, Yersl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) xi, 1877, ]>. 84. 
(Plate XXIX, Fig. 2.) 
Body short and stout, the dorsal contour evenly rounded and rather 
more ai’ched than the ventral, its width L67 in its depth, which is about one 
