﻿^2 'ENDEAVOUE" SCIENTIFIC EESULTS. 



Prosoplismns recurvirostris, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v., 

 i903> P- 58, pl- vi. 



Pentaceropsis recurvirostris, Waite, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 xii. (7), 1903, p. 288; ibid., Rec. Austr. Mus., v., 1905, 

 corrigenda, p. xiii. ; ibid., loc. cit., vi., 1905, p. 62; id., 

 Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxii., 1907, p. 236. 



This species has been recorded from southern New South 

 Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Austraha and Fremantle, 

 West Austraha. Three specimens are included in the "En- 

 deavour" collection which were trawled off the east coast of 

 Flinders Island, Bass Strait. 



Genus Maccl'i.lochia, JVaite. 



Richard so7iia, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. Vict., i., 



1872, p. 112 {insigfus = labiosa, not Richardsonia, Stein- 



dachner, 1866). 

 Richardsonia, Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxii., 1907, 



p. 236. 

 MacuUochia, Waite, Proc. N. Zealand Inst., pt. i, 1910, p. 25 



(labiosa), substitute for Richardsonia. 

 Maccidlochia, Waite, Rec. Cantb. Mus., i., 191 1, p. 217. 



Anal spines two. Dorsal spines seven, the fourth longest 

 and very high ; soft dorsal low and short, with about seventeen 

 rays. 



Maccullochia labiosa, Giinther. 



Histiopterus labiosus, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 658, 



pl. lix. ; id., Klunzinger, Sitz. Ak. W^iss. Wien., Ixxx. i., 



p. 376; id., Ogilby, Ed. Fish, and Crust. N.S.Wales, 



1893, P- 29, pl- vii. 



Richardsonia insignis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. 



Vict., i., 1872, p. 1 12. 

 Histiopterus farnelli, Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1899, 



p. 116, pl. xxvii. 

 MacuUochia labiosa, Waite, Proc. N. Zealand Inst., pt. i, 

 1910, p. 25. 

 Eleven specimens, 170-380 mm. long, prove that H. 

 farnelli, Waite, is the young of Giinther's species. From the 

 deep-bodied form, with striking dark colour-markings, this 

 fish changes into an elongate and uniformly coloured adult. 

 The largest specimen in the collection is especially interesting 

 in that it is just intermediate between the two extremes. 

 While having the general appearance of labiosus, it has the 

 long spines and markings of farnelli, but these latter, instead 

 of being uniformly black, are composed of brown reticulating 



