108 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



durah (Waite) ; King George Sound (Richardson, as Smarts 

 porosus} ; Talc Bay (Richardson, as Mcenoides auro-frenatus). 

 The two specimens described above ai'e from Fremantle and 

 Mandurah, and the " Endeavour " collection includes a specimen 

 from between Geraldton and Cape Natural iste. 



PKNTAITS SETOSUS, Curler $ Valenciennes. 



Tetitapus setotns, Cuvier A Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi., 

 1830, p. 270. Id., Sleeker, Nat. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind., i,i., 

 1851, p. 175, and Atl. Ichth., viii., 1876-7, p. 101, 

 pi. cccxxiv., fig. 1. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., 

 i., 1859, p. 382. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, v, 1881, p. 385. 



Pentapus paradiseits, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., i., 1859., 

 p. 383. Id., Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, i, 1877, p. '272. Id., Macleay, Loc. cit., p. 385. 



Dentex filifer, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr. (Viet, Offic. Rec. 

 Philad. Exhib.), 1875, p. 12. Id., Macleay, Loc. cit., 

 p. 383. 



Fifteen specimens, 80-210 mm. long from the snout to the 

 middle caudal rays, agree very well with Bleeker's description and 

 figure of P. setosus, and with Giinther's description of P. 

 paradiseus. They also appear to be identical with Dentex filifer, 

 Castelnau, of which the number of dorsal spines has been mis- 

 printed as two instead of ten, and altered by Macleay to twelve. 



All the " Endeavour " specimens, and all others I have seen, 

 have the caudal filament well developed so that this is not a sexual 

 character as suggested by Giinther. The blue markings on the 

 head and body are veiy dark in examples preserved in formalin 

 instead of being lighter than the ground colour as in many spirit 

 specimens. The young have a broad dark band from the snout 

 which passes throiagh the eye in a straight line to the base of the 

 caudal ; on either side of this is a narrow, rather indistinct one 

 separated from it by a yellowish stripe. The dark bands are 

 wanting in the larger specimens. 



The presence of a caudal filament, and the different colour 

 marking readily distinguishes this species from P. vitta, in 

 which the dark lateral band is always present, and inclines 

 obliquely upwards towards the lateral line. 



Through the kindness of Mr. J. D. Ogilby, I am able to add a 

 note on a deformed example of this species which is included in 

 the collection of the Queensland Museum. It agrees in every 



