180 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



lower surface of the head, behind the angle of the mouth. 

 The scales in advance of the dorsal fin are less rugose 

 than those of fasciatus and the body appears to be 

 without dark cross-bands. 



Thirty specimens, 133 to 275 mm. long, are preserved. 

 The eye of the smallest is but little longer than the post- 

 orbital portion of the head, and scales are present on the 

 area behind the mouth as in the adults. All of the 

 "Endeavour" specimens are largely denuded of scales, 

 so an example in the Australian Museum collection 

 (1.15247) has been selected as the holotype. 



Localities. East of Sydney, 150 fathoms; May, 1920. 

 Holotype and four paratypes. 



Off Montague Island, New South Wales, 70-100 

 fathoms; October, 1921. 



Eastern edge of Bass Strait, 100-220 fathoms. 



CCELORHYNCHUS, PARAMACRURUS, INNOTABILIS 



Cvclorhi/ncJius innotabilis McCulloch, Kec. Austr. Mus. 

 vi/5, 1907, p. 348, pi. Ixiii, figs. 2-2a. 



Ccelorhynchus, Paramacrurus, innotabiJis Gilbert and 

 Hiibbs, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 100, i, 7, 1920, p. 429. 



Six examples, 235-240 mm. long, have been compared 

 with the holotype which is only 138 mm. long. The edges 

 of the snout are a little less curved in the "Endeavour" 

 specimens than in the small holotype, but they agree in 

 all other details. The following are the proportions of 

 the largest : 



Head and trunk (79 mm.) 2-03 in the tail (161); 

 head (55) 4-3 in the total length. Depth before the 

 ventral fins (24) 2-2, eye (16-5) 3-3, and snout (22) 2-5 

 in the head. Interorbital width (9) 1-8 in the eye. 

 Second dorsal spine (24) 2-2 in the head, and 1-3 in the 

 postrostral length of the head (32). Pectoral fin (20) 

 2-75 in the head. The eye is 1-3 in the snout, and longer 

 than the postorbital portion of the head. The width of 

 the mouth at its posterior angle is 2-5 in the breadth 

 of the head at the same point, and the maxillary reaches 

 backward beyond the vertical of the middle of the eye. 



The spinules on the scales of the sides are directed 

 obliquely backward, and form ten to twelve subparallel 

 ca rinse of about equal strength. The body is without 



