FOVB QUEENSLAND FISHES— McCDLLOCU. 91 
FOUR QUEENSLAND FISHES. 
By Allan R. McCulloch, Zoologist, Australian Museum. 
(Contributions from the Australian Museum.) 
(Plates XXVII to XXX.) 
The four species here described and figured have hitherto been only very 
bi-iefly characterised, and their recognition has been a matter of soine little 
difficulty. Pomacriifnis apicalis, De Vis, and Cantherincs bruiinfiis. Castelnan, 
have not been recognised since they were originally described over thirty year.s 
ago. 
Family POMACE^TRID^E. 
Genus POMACENTRUS, Laeepede. 
POMACEiVTRUS APICALIS, de Vis. 
(Plate XXVII.) 
i'omaccntrus apicalis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, ix, 1S85, p. 874. 
D. xiii/16; A. ii/13; P. 20; V. i/5 ; C. 15; L. lat. 20; 27 rows of scales 
between the operculum and the hypural joint ; L. tr. 34/11. Depth before the 
ventrals 2 into the length of the hypural .ioint; head 3-3 in the same. Eye 
slightly narrower than the interorbital width, as long as the snout, and 3-5 in the 
head. 
Body short and deep. Head slightly longer than deep. Snout obtusely 
pointed, the maxilla reaching .slightly beyond the anterior margin of the eye. 
Suborbital strongly denticulate on its postero-inferior margin. Preopereulum 
denticulate on its hinder limb, the angle rounded. Operculum with a small 
flat si)ine. Head, body, and vertical fins closely covered with scales, the edges 
of which are minutely ciliated ; they extend forward to between the nostrils and 
cover the greater part of the suborbital bone, leaving only the end of the snout 
naked. Nostril a little nearer the eye than the end of the snout. Dorsal 
originating above the end of the operculum ; the spines increase gradually in 
length backwards, and there is no indentation between the spinous and soft 
dorsals; the soft dorsal angular, its median rays longest. Second anal spine as 
long as the distance between the preopereulum and the snout, and longer than 
the dorsal spines ; soft portion of fin rounded. Caudal bifurcate, the upper lobe 
longer than the lower. First ventral ray filamentous, reaching the second anal 
spine. 
92 MEMOmS OF THE QVEEXSLAM) MrsEi'M. 
Colour. — After preservation in weak alcohol, the general eolour is dark 
coffee brown, with indistinct darker bases to the scales. Most of the scales of the 
back. side, and soft dorsal with a minute pale spot; the scales on the lower 
portion of the opercuhnn and the base of the pectoral each with larger pale 
bluish spots. A row of light infraorbital spots. Dorsal fins with a broad orange 
margin which is most intense on the soft portion ; two irregular blue streaks 
bet\veen each of the third to last spines ; a large black blotch between the upper 
portion of the second and third spini\s. Tip of the upper caudal lobe bright 
orange. Soft dorsal, caudal, anal, pectorals and vcntrals blackish, the spines of 
the anal and ventrals light blue. 
Described from a specimen 11.") iimi. long from the snout to the end of 
the middle caudal rays. It agrees lietter with the second specimen referred to 
by de Vis than with that upon which he bases his description. 
Loc. — Ilolborn Is., off Port Denison, Queensland; collected by Mr. E. ?I. 
Rainford. 
Family TEUTHIDID.E. 
Genus TEUTHLS, Linne. 
Bepatvs. Oronow, Zoophyl.. 17(5.'!, p. 113 — n(iiibiii'>iiii;il. 8ee .Jonlan. Gemnvi FiHlii>s. 1917, p. 20. 
Teuthis, Linne, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1766, p. 2:? (T. Iirfaliix, Liiine). hi.. .Tonlnn, Inc. cit.. 
p. 23. 
TEUrraS GRAMMOPTILUS, Rirhanlson. 
(Plate XXVIIL) 
Aranthurus rirammnptilm. Kic-liardsun, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xi, 1842, p. 176. Id., Giinther, 
Brit. Mas. Cat. Fish., iii, 1861, !>. 335. Id., Maclcay. Tioe. Linn. Soo. N. S. Wales, ii, 
1878, p. 3.54, and v, 1881, p. 328. Id., Khuizinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx, i, 
1879, p. 393. 
D. ix/27; A. iii/25; P. 17; V. i/f) ; ('. l(i. Depth bcfoir the ventrals 1-9 
in the length to the hyimral .joint ; head :!•") in the same. Eye 2-3 in its distance 
from the ujiper li|), iind '■'>■'.) in the head; inter()i'l)ital space widei' than the eye, 
'.', ill till- lii-ad. Last dorsal spine 1-."), ciiiliteent li doi'sal r;iy Ml in tlic licad. 
Pectoral 1-04, vmlral 1-2 in the lirad. 
The profile from the snout to the dorsal fin is obliquely convex, the fore- 
licad before the; eyes forming an obtu.se angle between the contours of the snout 
and the nape. Opereles obliejue; ])reopereular border and the whole of the 
operculum striated. Nostrils approximate, the anterioi' much larger than the 
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posterior, which is eloso to the border of the eye. Teeth depressed, their margins 
rouiuled and uniforiiily lobiihite ; sixteen in the upper jaw. The exposed surfaces 
of the clavicle and supraelavicle are striated. 
The greater part of the body is covered with small, strongly ctenoid 
scales, which become cycloid on the breast and abdomen ; head-scales deeply 
embedded and cycloid. Lateral line arched anteriorly, thence oblique to below 
the hinder third of the soft dorsal, whence it descends to the middle of the 
caudal peduncle. Caudal sjjine strong, its anterior fi-ee portion longer than 
the posterior. 
Dorsal connnencing above the middle of the operculum, the spines 
increasing evenly in length to the la.st. The margin of the fin is evenly rounded, 
and the rays decrease evenly backwards to the eighteenth, after which they 
become rapidly shorter. Anal commencing below the posterior dorsal spines, 
and terminating a trifle behind the last ray; its margin rounded. Ventrals 
acutely pointed, and reaching the base of the first anal ray. Caudal damaged, 
emarginate (the lobes probably produced). 
Colour. — Body brown before preservation, tinged with yellow. The 
greater part of the side.s covered with narrow dark-brown lines, which are largely 
horizontal, irregular and anastomosing, ^'entral surface luiiform brown. Home 
broad blue bands around the eye enclose light areas. Cheeks, opereles, shoulder, 
and base of pectoral brown, closely covered with reticulating darker brown 
stripes. Dorsal orange yellow, becoming darker posteriorly ; a broad blue 
l)and along the entire base and a .second darker one above it posteriorly; a narrow 
black margin. Anal dark greenish brown, with a pale blue border, with indica- 
tions of two blue stripes near the base posteriorly. Ventrals dark brown ; 
])ectorals yellowish, darker between the rays. Caudal dark, with many round 
darker spots between the rays; the base near the caudal peduncle light in colour; 
a blackish area round the caudal spine. 
Described and figured from a specimen 218 mm. long, from the Clarence 
River, New South Wales. 
Variation. — Two smaller examples from Masthead Island, 150 and 159 
mm. long, are very similar, though their markings are not so distinct as in the 
larger example; in one, the vei'miform markings on the body are unich broader 
and le.ss numerous than in the other. The dorsal and anal fins are marked with 
about six longitudinal dark stripes, and are darker anteriorly than in the specimen 
figured. The white area around the caudal peduncle is more sharply defined 
anteriorly, and the extreme margin of the fin is white. 
Locs. — Clarence River, New South Wales; presented to the Austi'alian 
Aluseum by the Fisheries Department of New South AVales. Masthead Island, 
off Port Curtis, Queensland ; coll. A. R. McCulloch. Specimens are in the 
Macleay Museum from Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
94 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
FAMiLiT BLENNTIP.E. 
Genus NOTOGKAPTUS, Giiiither. 
NOTOGRAPTUS GUTTATUS, CUintlier. 
(Plate XXIX.) 
Notogruiitus guUatus, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx, 1867, p. 64. Id., Macleay, 
Proo. Limi. Soe. N. S. Wales, ii, 1878, p. 359, and vi, 1881, p. 30. Id., Kluuzinger, 
Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx, i, 1879, p. 393. 
Bhinchardia miiculata, Castelnan, Res. Fish. Austr. (Vict. Offic. Rec. Philad. Exhib.), 1875, 
p. 47. Id., Maoleay, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, vi, 1881, p. 272. Id., Ogilby, Mem. 
Qld. Mus., i, 1912, p. 216. 
D. l.xii/1 : A. xx.wii /2 ; V. 1 ; P. 19 ; C. 10. The length from the snout to 
the vent is 1-1 in tlie distance between the vent and the hypnral joint. The head 
is 2-5 in its distance from the vent. Depth at the vent about 2-1 in the head ; 
orbit 5 in the same. Snout 1-5 in the orbit and greater than tlie interoi-bital 
width, which is 2-7 in the orbit. Pectoral 2-2, caudal 1-5 in the head. Ventral 
ray almost equal to the orbit iu length. Posterior dorsal spine 3-2, and posterior 
anal spine nearly 4 in the head. 
Bod}' anguilliform, somewhat compressed, and covered with minute 
imbricate scales which extend forward to behind the pectorals and ventrals ; the 
breast and the back above thi^ lateral line are naked. Head subcylindrical, naked, 
with series of pores surrounding the eye, above the opereles, across the nape, and 
on the mandibles. .Snout obtuse ; anterior nostril in a short tube. Mouth nearly 
horizontal, the maxilla produced backward well beyond the eye; its posterior 
jKirtion is ratiier nari'ow, rounded, and exposed; mandible shorter than the upper 
jaw, with a small mental barbel. A broad band of granular teeth on each ramus 
of the jaws, which beconies narrower as it extends backward ; the symphyses are 
naked ; a broad band of similar teeth on each palatine, vomer toothless. Tongue 
slender, largely free. Kye large, its antei'ior margin free from the orbital 
mi'inbi'anes. ()])ereles uiiar'med, the i)rcopercular margin hidden ))eiieath the 
skin; subopereulum witli oblique ridges. Gill-opening wide, lateral, the mem- 
branes bi'oadly attached to the isthmus. Lateral line extending obliquely upward 
from the open-ulnm to neai' the back, whence it I'uns backwai'd to the base of 
the foui'th last dorsiil spim'; it is Foi'med of a continuous sei'ies of enlarged 
tubules. 
Doi'sal fin originating above the c-rid of tlie head ; tlie spines of the gi'eater 
portion are slendei' with flexible tips, bill tiny ln'cDnn' thickcu- posteriorly and 
are acutely pointed; they increase gradually in Irngth to the last; the single ray 
is branched and longer than the spines, and is united with the caudal. Anal 
.similar in form to the dorsal, commencing below the twenty-eighth spiiu> of 
that fin; its .spines are all stroiig and acute, and increase in length to the last;