160 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



APISTOPS CALOUNDRA, de Vis. 

 (Plate xxxv., fig. 2.) 



Apistus caloundra, de Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., ii., 1886, 

 p. 145. Id., Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., 10, 1911, p. 54. 



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

 of the Queensland Museum, I have been able to examine and 

 figure the typical specimen of this species, which is the only 

 one known. Ogilby counted fifty-two rows of scales along 

 the body ; I find only forty-seven immediately below the 

 lateral line, which is composed of twenty-five tubules. 



LOG. Caloundra, Queensland. 



Genus APISTUS, Cuvier. 



APISTUS CARINATUS, Bloch & Schneider. 



(Plate xxxi.) 



? Scorpcena carinata, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 

 p. 193 (fide Day). 



Apistus carinatus, Day, Fish. India, 1875, p. 155, pi. xxxvii., 

 fig. 4 (synonymy). 



Apistus macrolepidotus, Ogilby, New Fish. Qld. Coast, 1911, 

 p. 108. 



Forty-one specimens, 11 1-165 mm. long, are included in 

 the collection which Ogilby has referred to his A. macrolepi- 

 dotus. I have carefully compared them with two examples 

 of A. carinatus from Dr. Day's collection from Madras, and 

 find that they agree in every detail. Their colour marking 

 varies in intensity, some being very pale and others dark, 

 and the dorsal spot may extend over from three to six spines. 

 There are usually fifteen dorsal spines, but some have sixteen ; 

 Day counted fourteen to sixteen. Ogilby described 10+1 

 pectoral rays and Day 12+1 ; I find 11 + 1 in both Indian 

 and Australian specimens. There are forty to forty-two rows 

 of scales according to Ogilby, and seventy according to Day ; 

 the number varies greatly according to their position above 

 or below the lateral line, and also in which direction they are 

 counted, but I find no differences in the scales of the Indian 

 and Australian specimens. 



LOGS. The specimen figured is a large example 165 mm. long, 

 from east of Frazer Island, Queensland, 25 fathoms. Forty 

 others are preserved from various localities between Low 

 Bluff and Cape Gloucester, Queensland, 15-33 fathoms. 



