FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 165 



Body covered with small ctenoid scales, which extend 

 forward to the front margin of the eyes. Lateral line scales 

 not differentiated from the others, unarmed. There are about 

 eighty or one hundred and ten rows above the lateral line, 

 according to the direction in which they are counted. 



Origin of the first dorsal behind the end of the operculum : 

 first spine minute, third longest ; second ray longest, the 

 others decreasing gradiially in length. Anal commencing a 

 little behind, and terminating well behind the second dorsal ; 

 its rays shorter than those of the dorsal, the third the highest, 

 the others decreasing slightly in length backwards. Ventrals 

 reaching to, or a little beyond the origin of the anal. Caudal 

 rounded. 



Colour. Grey above in formalin, closely speckled with 

 rounded, darker grey spots. Spines and rays of dorsal fins 

 with grey spots. Anal whitish, the membrane between the 

 posterior rays blackish. Pectorals and ventrals spotted. 

 Caudal white, with five striking black stripes, which increase 

 in width below ; the upper ones are oblique, the lower hori- 

 zontal. 



Described and figured from a specimen 271 mm. long. 

 Twenty-fovir others, 225-340 mm. long, exhibit but little 

 variation ; the eye is somewhat larger in some than in others, 

 and the interorbital space is from half to two-thirds as wide 

 as the orbital diameter. 



Locs. Northern New South Wales. 



Twenty-two miles S.W. of Double Island Point, Queensland, 

 29 fathoms. 



Five miles S.E. of Boomerang Hill, Fraser Island, Queens- 

 land, 15 fathoms. 



Wide Bay and Platypus Bay, Queensland. 



Family CHAUNACTD.E. 

 Genus CHAUNAX, Lowe. 



CHAUNAX FIMBRIATUS, Hilgendorf. 

 (Plate xxxiii., fig. 1-la.) 



Chaunax fimbriatus, Hilgendorf, Gessellsch. Natuif.Freunde, 



1879, p. 80. 



D. i.i., 12 ; A. 7 ; P. 13 ; V. 4 ; C. 8. Depth slightly more 

 than one-third the length from the tip of the upper jaw to the 

 hypural joint ; breadth about half the same length. Head, 

 measured from the symphysis of the upper jaw to the gill open- 

 ing, 1-6 in the length to the hypural. Eye shorter than its dis- 

 tance from the tip of the snout, and less than half the interocular 

 space. Sixth dorsal ray and third anal ray subequal in 



