FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 197 



snout and eye, etc., in relation to the length of the body, 

 which are obviously incorrect, and which cast doubt upon 

 the accuracy of other details of the description. The 

 only specimen of C. japonicus preserved in the 

 "P^ndeavour" collection is without data, and it differs 

 from the description of C. affinis in being 210 instead of 

 260 mm. long. It tallies so well in all other details, how- 

 ever, that it is clearly specifically identical with C. 

 affinis, and under the circumstances, suggests that it is 

 the actual specimen upon which the description was 

 based, its length being misprinted as 260 mm. instead of 

 210. In any case, it proves the identity of C. affinis and 

 C. japonicus. 



Locality. The only specimen preserved is unfor- 

 tunately without data. C. affinis was secured off Cape 

 Moreton, Southern Queensland. 



CALLIONYMUS, CALLIURICHTHYS, JAPONICUS 

 var. SCABER, nov. 



CalUonymus longicaudatus Waite, Prelim. Kept. "Thetis" 

 Exped., 1898, p. 60. Id. McCulloch, Kec. Aust. Mus. 

 xiv, 1, 1923, p. 8 part. 



Four specimens in the Australian Museum, 124-218 

 mm. long, differ from the typical form of C. japonicus 

 in having the upper surface of the head much more rugose. 

 In the typical form, there are two bony bucklers, one on 

 each side of the occiput, with smooth ridges or tubercles 

 radiating from their centres; the median area behind 

 the eyes is covered with smooth integument. In the var. 

 scaber the ridges of the two lateral bucklers are very 

 rough, and the median area behind the eyes is covered 

 with similar bony rugosities. In all other characters 

 the variety appears to be similar to the typical form. 



Locality. Lord Howe Island. 



CALLIONYMUS, CALLIURICHTHYS,, NASUTUS, sp. nov. 



(Plate Hi.) 

 D.iv/9; A.8; P.17; V.i/5; C.10. 



Depth (16 mm.) 10-6 in the length to the hypural 

 joint (170). Head to the posterior margin of the oper- 

 culum (47) 3-6, and breadth before the pectorals (31) 

 5-4 in the same: distance between the end of the snout 



