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Family Trtglim:. 

 45. — Scorpcena Bynoensis. 

 Rich. Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, p. 22, pi. 14, f. 3-4. 

 Two specimens, Darnley Island. 



46. — Pterois volitans. 

 Seba, 3.28.1 ; Renard, Poiss., 1.6.41-143.215, &c. 

 Gasterosteus volitans, L. 1, p. 491. 



Scorpcena volitans, L. Gra. 1 p. 119 ; Block., t. 184, &c. 

 Scorpcena make, Lace p. 3, p. 278. 



Pterois volitans, Cuv. and Val. 4, p. 352, pi. 88 ; Bleek. Verb. 

 Batav. Genoostch, 22, p. 8 ; Riipp, N. W. Fische, p. 107. 

 One specimen, Hall Sound. 



47. — Tetraroge Darnleyensls. 

 Plate VI. Fig. 1. 

 D. -La A. f. 

 Body compressed, oblong, without scales. Head large. Cleft of 

 mouth oblique. Upper maxillary reaching to the vertical from the 

 posterior third of the eye. Space between the eyes narrow and 

 deeply grooved with two fine, partially converging ridges. Prseor- 

 bital armed, with one of the spines, long, acute, and directed back- 

 wards. Prseoperculum armed with several strong spines, the upper 

 one long and acute ; both operculum and prseoperculum strongly 

 keeled- Dorsal fin commencing above the eye. Pectorals large, 

 spreading and reaching beyond the origin of the anal fin. Colour 

 in spirits, yellowish, mixed and mottled with black. 

 One specimen from Darnley Island found in coral. 



48. — Platycephalus insidiator. 



Cottvs insidiator, Forsk., p. 25 ; L. Cm. 1, p. 1213 ; Shaw, 

 Zool., Arc. 



Callionymus indicus, L. Gm. 1., p. 1153. 



Cottus spatalce, Bl. taf. 424. 



Platycephalus insidiator, Bl. Schn., p. 59 ; Cuv. and Val. 4, p. 227; 

 Riipp, N. W. Fische, p. 102; Bleek. Verb. Batav. Gen. 22, p. 6 ; 



