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It follows, therefore, that if A. pnlchellus be admitted as a 

 true Anthias\ the differences in the number of fin-rays alone 

 can be used to distinguish Ccesioperca from that genus. 



AXTHIAS PULCHEI.LUS, IVaite. 

 (Fig. 12.) 



Anthias pnlchellus, Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus. , iv., 1899, 

 p. 77, pi. xii. 

 Of eleven specimens preserved only three bear the black 

 spot on the dorsal fin. They were obtained off Norah Head, 

 New South Wales, in 65 fathoms, and 60 miles south of Cape 

 Everard, Victoria, 60-70 fathoms. 



Genus Call.anthias, Lowe. 



Callanthias allporti, Gunther. 



Allport's Perch. 



Callanthias allporti, Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xvli., 



1876, p. 390; id., Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., 2nd 



ed., i., 1895, p. 335, pi. XV. ; id., Waite, Prelim. Rept. 



"Thetis" Exped., i8g8, p. 31, pi. ii. 

 Callanthias platei, Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), iii., 



1899, p. 346; id., Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1899, 



p. 80; id., ibid., Rec. Austr. Mus., v., 1903, p. 56 {nee C. 



platei, Steindachner). 

 Callanthias platei ausifalis, Ogilb}', Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 



Wales, xxiv., 1899, p. 173. 

 In 1898 W^aite (Prelim. Rept. .^"Thetis") recorded six speci- 

 mens from the New South Wales coast as C. allporti, 

 Giinther, but noted that they did not wholly agree with the 

 published descriptions of that species. Boulenger (Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist.), with Giinther's type before him, considered that 

 Waite's figure represented a distinct species and identified it 

 with C. platei, Steindachner,! which had just been described 

 from Juan Fernandez. Later, Ogilby (Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W.), noting certain differences between Steindachner's 

 figure and the Australian fish, proposed to separate the latter 

 under the varietal name aiistralis, but this name was not 

 adopted by Waite, who referred to it simply as ( ■ platei 

 (Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., and Rec. Austr. Mus., v.). 



With twenty-three specimens taken by the "Endeavour" 

 and four others in the museum collection before me, I find 

 that the "Thetis" specimens were correctly identified as C. 

 allporti, and that ('. platei australis is merely the young form 



1 Steindachner— Faun. Chilensis, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl., iv., 2, 1898, p. 284. 



pi. XV. 



