﻿^O -ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



the coronet where it is notched. The coronet is quadrangular 

 with very indistinct tubercles and ridges. Tubercles of the 

 body almost uniformly obtuse, the lateral row a little more 

 developed than the others ; below the dorsal fin those of the 

 back are somewhat enlarged. On the tail the fifth, ninth and 

 twelfth are prominent. None of the tubercles bear filaments. 

 The dorsal fin stands on four body and three tail rings ; its- 

 anterior portion is damaged but it appears to have had 

 twenty-seven rays. 



Colour. — Light brown, the tail with nine darker cross- 

 bands. The head has large scattered dark spots arranged 

 around the eye and on the snout, and there are others on the 

 sides and under surfaces of the anterior portion of the body. 



Total length 87 mm. 



One specimen taken somewhere near Bass Strait, but the 

 exact locality is unknown. 



The large number of rays in the dorsal fin distinguishes this 

 from all other Australian species except H. ahdominalis, 

 Lesson. From that species it is easily separated by its slender 

 body, the form of the supraocular spines and coronet, and the 

 poor development of the tubercles. ' 



Family SCOMBRESOCID/E. 



Genus Scombresox, Lacepede. 



ScoMBRESOX FORSTERi, Ciivicr and Valenciennes. 



Scomhresox forsteri, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., xviii., 1846, p. 481. 

 A single specimen was taken in a landing net at night, 

 one hundred and twenty miles south-south-west of St. Francis 

 Island, South Australia. 



Family EXOCCETID^. 



Genus Exonautes, Jordan and Evermann. 



ExoNAUTES speculiger, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Flying Fish. 



Exoccetus speculiger, Cuvier and \^alenciennes. Hist. Nat. 



Poiss., xix., 1846, p. 94. 

 Cypsilurus specidiger, Jordan and Scale, Bull. U.S. Bur. 



Fish., xxv., 1905 (1906), p. 209, fig. 13. 

 A single specimen agreeing perfectly with the descriptions 

 and figure quoted was obtained between Port Stephens and 

 Newcastle, New South Wales. 



