﻿FISHES.-MCCULLOCH. 



figure of Ogilby's species under that name. C. ininiaculalus, 

 however, is readily distinguished from C. hypsilepis by its 

 much rounder body, shorter and broader caudal peduncle, 

 larger number of rays in the dorsal and anal fins, and by the 

 absence of the dark mark on the base of the pectoral and the 

 white spot on the caudal peduncle. The teeth of the two 

 species also are very different. 



Ogilby has described the teeth as conical and arranged in 

 a single series, but this is not altogether correct. In five 

 specimens, including the type, there is an enlarged outer 

 series of subcylindrical teeth with blunt points, arranged close 

 together as in Glyphisodon. Behind these there is a second 

 row of much smaller but similar teeth closely adpressed to the 

 outer series, each tooth of which is placed behind the inter- 

 section of two front ones ; this is doubtless a growing set to 

 replace the outer one as it becomes worn or damaged, and an 

 exactly similar arrangement is found in many species of 

 Glyphisodon and Hypsypops. On the median line of the palate 

 there is usually a single large depressible tooth of the same 

 form as, but more slender than those of the outer row. These 

 teeth are very different from those of Chromis chroniis, Linn., 

 or C. hypsilepis, Giinther, which are conical, somewhat 

 spaced, and arranged in a band ; they approach much nearer 

 to those of Glyphisodon, but are subcylindrical instead of 

 compressed. 



Three specimens were taken by the "Endeavour" at the 

 following stations : — 



Sixteen miles off the Bellenger River, New South Wales, 

 40-52 fathoms. 



Six miles off Port Stephens, New South Wales, 43 fathoms. 



Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 



Genus Hvpsvpops, Gill. 



HvpsvpoPS MiCROi.EPis, Gunflier. 



Scaly fin. 



Hypsipops niicrolepis, Giinther — Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., 

 vi., 1905, p. 67, pi. xii. 



Two specimens are in the collection from the New South 

 Wales coast, one from five miles off the South Solitary Light- 

 house, 35 fathoms, and the other from six miles off Port 

 Stephens, 43 fathoms. It is surprising to find this common 

 littoral species occurring in such deep water. It does not 

 appear to have been pre\ iously recorded north of Port 

 Jackson. 



