252 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Hob. Maldive Islands; Indo-Australian Archi- 

 pelago; Australia, eastern Queensland and northern 

 New South Wales. 



Described from numerous specimens (245, 16$), 

 75-140 mm. in total length. 



E.1733-6. (8) Northern New South Wales. 



E.2687. (5) 7-10 miles N.W. of Hummocky Island, 

 Queensland ; 14-16 fathoms. 



E.2704. (4) 12 miles N.E. of Bowen, Queensland; 

 19-25 fathoms. 



E.2854. (7) 20 miles N.N.E. of Double Island Point, 

 Queensland; 29-30 fathoms. 



E.2856. 25 miles S.E. of Double Island Point, 

 Queensland ; 33 fathoms. 



E.2857. (5) Platypus Bay, Queensland; 7-9 fathoms. 



E.2871. Off Gladstone, Queensland. 



E.2861. No data. 



- . (7) No data. 



Dr. L. F. de Beaufort has kindly compared two of the 

 specimens from Queensland with typical examples of 

 E. pcecilurus from the Indo-Australian Archipelago, and 

 informs me that they are identical. I am unable to detect 

 any important differences between this species and E. 

 grandisquama, Schlegel, from Japan. Schlegel's figures 

 do not show the characteristic black spots on the caudal 

 fin, but in describing the coloration of the Japanese 

 species he remarks that "les teintes sont en grande partie 

 effacees." 



5. BOTHUS. 



Bothus (Kafinesque, 1810), Kyle, Rep. Danish Ocean. 

 Exped., II, A I, p. 94 (1913). 



Platophrys, Swainson, Nat. Hist, II, p. 302 (1839). 



Rhomboidichthys, Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Ned., I, 

 1856, Manado, etc., p. 67. 



Several species from the Mediterranean, tropical 

 Atlantic, and Indo-Pacific; one known from Australia. 



1. Bothus panther-inns. 



Rhombus pantherinus, Ruppell, Fische rothen Meers, 

 p. 121, pi. xxxi, fig. 1 (1828). 



