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Havings compared fifteen specimens from New South Wales 

 with the descriptions and figures of the European species, I 

 fail to find any specific differences between them. As has been 

 pointed out by Waite, the characters relied upon to dis- 

 tinguish Z. australis from Z. faher are variable, and one must 

 therefore follow Giinther in legarding the two as identical. 



Eight small specimens, 63-140 mm. long, differ from the 

 larger ones in having much deeper bodies, which are marked 

 with manv wavy, dark lines extending from the snout to the 

 tail. 



This species was taken between Port Stephens and New- 

 castle, New South Wales, in 22-60 fathoms ; in Disaster Bay, 

 New South Wales ; and thirty-six miles off Cape Everard, 

 Victoria, 75 fathoms. 



Genus Zenopsis, Gill. 



Zenopsis nebulosa, Schlegel. 



Mirror Dorey. 



(Plate xvi., fig. i.) 



Zeus nebulosus, Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Polss., 1847, 

 p. 123, pi. Ixvi. 



Zenopsis nebulosa, Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. , XXV., 1902, p. 515. 



D. viii.-ix., 27-28; A. iii., 25-27; V. i. 5; P. 12-13; C. 

 13 + 2. 



Height of the body i "6 to i "8, length of the head 2 "8 in the 

 length from the snout to the hypural. Snout twice as long as 

 the eye which is 4*3 in the head and a little wider than tht- 

 interorbital space. Maxillary very large, its greatest width 

 o 75 to 0*85 in the eye. With the exception of the rough 

 orbital margins, the head is quite smooth, though the pre- 

 operculum ends in a broad spine below, and there is another 

 more or less distinct flattened spine just below the end of the 

 maxilla. Teeth small, conical, acute, arranged in two groups 

 in front on the upper jaw, becoming rudimentary on the sides ; 

 in the lower jaw, though they are largest anteriorly, they are 

 also quite distinct laterally. They form two groups on the 

 vomer. 



Skin wholly naked except for the bony bucklers which arc 

 each armed with a central spine, curved backwards and out- 

 wards, and ornamented with radiating ridges. There are 

 twelve to fourteen bucklers along the base of the dorsal, the 

 anterior ones being somewhat indistinct and commencing in 

 advance of the third dorsal spine ; those beneath the middle of 



