FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 199 



scarcely reaching the level of the first anal ray; all the 

 rays are branched. Upper margin of the caudal excised; 

 the median rays longest, and all but the outer ones 

 bifurcate. 



Colour-marking. Head and body very obscurely 

 marbled on the upper surface; white below. Head with 

 numerous rounded ocelliform spots or lines which are 

 most numerous on the checks and opercles. A row of 

 large dusky spots along the middle of the sides with 

 some scattered smaller imperfect ocelli between them 

 and the upper surface. First dorsal grey with an 

 elaborate pattern of ocelli arranged as is shown in the 

 figure; blackish spots and angular markings are present 

 between the bases of the three anterior spines and a 

 large black blotch is present on the fourth spine about 

 the middle of its length. Second dorsal grey with many 

 darker grey spots of various sizes. Anal with a faint 

 grey inframarginal baud and a white border. Caudal 

 with many dark grey spots and the membrane between 

 the lower rays dusky. Ventrals obscurely spotted. 



Described and figured from a single specimen, 240 

 mm. long to the end of the caudal rays. 



Locality. 13 miles south-east from Cape Capricorn, 

 Queensland, 13 fathoms ; 29th July, 1910. 



CALLIONYMUS, CALLIURICHTHYS, BELCHERI Richardson. 



Callionymus belcheri Richardson, Zool. Voy. Sulphur 

 i, 1881, p. 62, pi. xxxvii, figs. 1-2. 



D.iv/9; A.9; P.19; V.i/5; C.10. 



Depth at the vent (9 mm.) 11-6 in the length to the 

 hypural joint (105) ; head (38) 2-6, and breadth of the 

 body before the pectorals (20) 5-2 in the same. Eye (8) 

 shorter than the snout (9) and 4-7 in the head. Inter- 

 orbital space (1-5) 5-3 in the eye. 



Head very large, depressed and heart-shaped, the 

 snout being pointed and the opercles forming broadly 

 rounded lobes, the free edges of which are attached just 

 before the bases of the pectoral fins. The upper lip pro- 

 jects well beyond the preorbital when the mouth is closed. 

 The supraorbital margins form elevated ridges and 

 enclose a narrow deeply-grooved interorbital space. The 



