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Genus APRION, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 APEION VIRESCENS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Aprion virescens, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vi., 1830, p. 544. pi. clxviii. Id., Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 

 viii., 1876, p. 77, pi. ccxciii., fig. 3. 



A large specimen, nearly 600 mm. long, agrees very well 

 with Bleeker 's figure. It was taken on a line on Gardner 

 Bank, east of Frazer Island, Queensland. The species has 

 not hitherto been recognised from Australia. 



Family ENOPLOSID.E. 

 Genus ENOPLOSUS, Lacepede. 



ENOPLOSUS ARMATUS, Shaw. 

 Old Wife. 



Chcetodon armatits, Shaw in White, Voy. N.S.Wales, 1790, 



p. 254, fig. 1. 

 Enoplosiis ivhite. Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv., 1802, 



p. 541. 

 Enoplosus serotimis, de Vis, Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 10, 1911, 



p. 29. 



Through the kindness of Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris, Director 

 of the Queensland Museum, I have been permitted to 

 examine the type of Enoplosus serotinus, de Vis. It is in 

 very bad condition, but does not differ in any way from E. 

 arm&tus. It has eight spines in the first dorsal instead of 

 seven as described, while the length from the snout to the 

 base of the tail is 148mm. instead of 163. It was said to 

 have been collected at Cairns, North Queensland, but this 

 locality is almost certainly wrong, since the species is not 

 otherwise known farther north than Wide Bay. 



Two very large examples are preserved in the " Endeavour" 

 collection measuring 262 mm. from the tip of the snout to 

 the end of the middle caudal rays. They only differ from 

 smaller examples in having the dorsal spines shorter and the 

 anterior dorsal and anal rays longer. In the young the fourth 

 spine is about 2-2 in the length of the head and body ; in the 

 larger specimens it is 3-8 in the same. The depth of the body 

 varies in different individuals from 2-2-17 in the length from 

 the snout to the hypural joint. 



LOGS. Wide Bay, Queensland. 



Twenty-four miles S.S.E. of Eagle's Nest, Victoria, 45 

 fathoms ; 12th June, 1914. 



