78 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



lai'ge commercial trawl into 450 fathoms and several lesser 

 depths in the Great Australian Bight, and, as might be expected, 

 has captured a wonderfully rich collection of new or little known 

 fishes. Many of these are genei'ically and even specifically 

 identical with the species known from similar depths in other 

 parts of the world, though they have not been previously 

 recognised from Australian waters, and they give some idea of 

 the lai'ge number of species which will have to be added to the 

 Australian list when this section of our fauna is better known. 



It may be mentioned here that such of these deep-sea fishes as 

 have been examined bear a marked resemblance to those 

 described from Japan, Hawaii, and the Indian Ocean, while a 

 few are apparently identical with species occurring in the 

 Mediterranean and the neighbouring Atlantic Ocean. Some of 

 them are also known to occur in shallow water in New Zealand 

 whei'e so many deep sea types are occasionally cast up on the 

 beaches. 



The following are dealt with in this Report : 



Oxynotns bmniensis, Ogilby ; Southern Australia. Near 

 0. centrina, Linnaeus ; Mediterranean and neighbouring 

 Atlantic. 



Scymnorhinus licha, Bonnaterre ; Mediterranean and neigh- 

 bouring Atlantic, Japan, New Zealand and Southern 

 Australia. 



Squatina tergocellata, sp. nov. ; Southern Australia, Near 

 S. africana, Regan ; Natal. 



Polyipnus tridentifer, sp. nov. ; Southern Australia. Near 

 P. spinosus, Giinther ; Indian and Western Pacific 

 Oceans. 



Neoscopelus macrolepidotus, Johnson; Atlantic, Indian, and 

 Pacific Oceans, New Zealand and Southern Australia. 



Centriscops humerosus, Richardson ; Southern Australia and 

 New Zealand. 



Notopogon lilliei, Regan ; Southern Australia and New 

 Zealand. 



Hyperoglyphe johnstonii, Morton ; Southern Australia and 

 New Zealand. 



Seryx decadactylus, Cuvier & Valenciennes ; Madeira, Japan, 

 and Southern Australia, 



Hoplostethus intermedius, Giinther ; Southern Pacific and 

 Southern Australia. 



