Waite. — Fishes of Kermadec and Norfolk Islands. 379 



As the present example is in perfect condition, the original description 

 may be amended and amplified as follows : — 



D. II, 35; A. 32; P. 12; C. 12. 



The upper edge of the gill-opening stand; under the middle of the eye, 

 and the insertion of the pectoral is beneath the same point. As in the type 

 specimen, the dorsal spine is also broken ; the existing portion measures one- 

 half the length of the enout. 



The colour and markings are as previously described, but in addition 

 the upper part of the body and caudal peduncle are ornamented with closely 

 set small black spots, which do not extend below the mid-line of the body. 



The specimen is somewhat larger than the type, being 280 mm. in length. 



Sphseroides oblongus, Bloch. 



Represented by one specimen only. 



Canthigaster caudofasciatus, Giinther. 



Two little examples received, which measure but 31 mm. and 33 mm. 

 in length respectively. The smaller one is colourless, but the other exactly 

 resembles Steindachner's figure.* This author regards Tetrodon caUisternis, 

 Ogilby, as the same species. C. caudofasciatus is identified from Laysan, 

 while C. caUisternis was described from examples collected on Lord Howe 

 Island. My Uttle specimens do not enable me to form any opinion on the 

 identity of the two forms. 



Diodon hystrix, Linnaeus. 



Among the specimens washed on to Denham Bay beach are two little 

 Diodons, measuring respectively 27 mm. and 12 mm. in length. They 

 have been referred to D. hystrix, because it is not possible in such small 

 specimens to find characters which may be distinctive, and which in adult 

 examples may be of doubtful value. 



Scorpaena cooki, Giinther. 



Jordan and Evermannf state that the illustration made by Garrett, and 

 published by Gunther as S. cooki, was from an Hawaiian species — *S. cacop- 

 sis, Jenkins- — the description only referring to the Raoul or Kermadec 

 Island species. 



Mr. Oliver informs me that this fish, two examples of which he submitted 

 for determination, is not uncommon on rocky bottoms, and was occasionally 

 caught. The largest specimen secured measured 475 mm. 



Pterois volitans, Linnaeus. 



Mr. Oliver writes, "' Only a single specimen was taken, being obtained 

 with a scoop net in the boat-harbour at Meyer Island on the 24th April, 

 1908. It is a most gorgeously coloured fish, which moved along very 

 slowly, near the bottom, and allowed itself to be driven to a corner, where 

 it was netted. Evidently it was conscious of the terrible weapons it pos- 

 sessed in its spines, and made but a feeble attempt to escape. I take it to 

 be a good case of warning coloration." 



Limnichthys fasciatus, Waite. 



]VIr. Oliver's collection contains several examples of this species, taken in 

 rock-pools, and also dredged from 5 fathoms at Sunday Island. They 



* Steindaohner, Denk. d. k. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Ixx, 1900, pi. iii, fig. 3. 

 t Jordan and Evermann, Bulk U.S. Fish. Comm., xxiii, 1905, p. 468. 



