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Genus PENTAROGE, Gunther. 



PENTAROGE MARMORATA, Cuvier < Valenciennes. 



(Plate xxxvi., fig. 2.) 



Apistus marmoratiis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., iv., 1829, p. 416. Id., Valenciennes, Reg. Anim. 

 111. Poiss., 1843 ?, pi. xxiv., fig. 3. Id., Richardson, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc., iii.. 1849, p". 99. 



Pentaroge marmorata. Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., ii., 

 I860, p. 132. Id., Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, Ivii., 1868, p. 984. Id.. Klunzinger, Arch. Nat,, 

 xxxviii. i., 1872, p. 28. Id.. Castelnau, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Viet., i., 1872, p. 82, and ii., 1873, p. 132. Id., 

 Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, 

 p. 366. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v., 



1881, p. 439. Id., Woods, Fish. & Fisher. N.S. Wales, 



1882, p. 49. Id.. Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 

 1882 (1883), p. 115, and 1890 (1891), p. 31. Id., Waite, 

 Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 3, 1906, p. 201. 



The lengths of the spines of both the fins and the head vary 

 greatly in this species, and there may be either twelve or 

 thirteen in the dorsal. The markings also differ very much 

 in several specimens from various localities, both in form and 

 in intensity, though their disposition is much the same in 

 all ; in some the larger dark blotches are brown, and sur- 

 rounded by more or less abundant marbling, while in others 

 they are deep black on a plain white ground. 



This species is known from Tasmania. Victoria, and south- 

 western Australia, Macleay and Tenison Woods have re- 

 corded it from Port Jackson, but their records need verifica- 

 tion, since they confused it with the common Fortescue, 

 Centropogon australis, Shaw ; as noted by Ogilby 1 nobody 

 has since collected Pentaroge in New South Wales. The type 

 specimen was said to have been taken at Timor, which record 

 is also doubted by Ogilby, while Klunzinger had examples 

 from Port Darwin as well as King George Sound and Port 

 Phillip. The specimen figured here was taken in the Swan 

 River, Western Australia, and is 137 mm. long. 



Loc. Eleven specimens, 100-162 mm. long, are in the 

 " Endeavour " collection from off Port Albert, Victoria, 9 

 fathoms. 



1. Ogilby Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xviii., 1903, p. 13. 



