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E.1662. (3) 5 miles S.E. of Boomerang Hill, Frazer 

 Island, Queensland; 15 fathoms. 



E. 1673. (2) Month of Wide Bay, South Queensland. 

 E.1677. (2) Mouth of Wide Bay, South Queensland. 

 E.6705. Southern Queensland. 

 E.1753. (2) Northern New South Wales. 



This species may prove to be identical with P. 

 marmorata, Bleeker, but appears to have a longer rostral 

 hook, larger scales, and somewhat fewer dorsal and anal 

 rays. 



3. Paraplagusia guttata. 



Plagusia guttata, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 



II, 1878, p. 362; ibid, VI, 1882, p. 137. 

 Pla-(/nxia japonica, Klunzinger, Sitzber, K. Ak. Wiss. 



Wien, LXXX, Abt. 1, 1880, p. 409. 



Plagusia notata, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 VIII, 1884, p. 288 ; Kent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 

 VI, 1889, p. 240. 



? RMnoplagusia australis, Rendahl, Nyt. Mag. Nat. 

 Krist., LX, 1922, p. 190. 



Rhinoplagusia japonica, McCulloch and Whitley, Rec. 

 Austral. Mus., XIV, 1925, p. 350, fig. 3. 



Depth of body 3f to 3* in the length, length of 

 head (3 9 / 10 ) 4^ to 4|. Snout rounded, a little longer 

 than head behind lower eye; rostral hook rather long, 

 its posterior edge 2J to 2f in length of head, ending 

 behind lower eye; interorbital width f to f diameter of 

 eye, which is 9 to 11 in length of head ; upper eye in 

 advance of lower; angle of mouth below posterior edge 

 of eye, much nearer gill-opening than end of snout. 

 Fringes on lower lip short, stout, generally unbranched. 

 Dorsal 105-107. Anal 83-86. Scales ctenoid, those of 

 ocular side more strongly denticulated than those of 

 blind side ; 88 to 92 in a longitudinal series ; three lateral 

 lines on the ocular side, the lower sometimes rather in- 

 distinct in places; 16 to 17 scales between upper and 

 middle lateral lines; no distinct lateral line on blind 

 side. Brownish, with some indistinct and irregular 

 lighter and darker markings ; most of the scales of ocular 

 side and some of those on blind side with darker edges; 

 vertical fins with small brown spots. 



