op new south wales. 277 



Family Squamipinnes. 



41. holocanthus sexstriatus. 



Cuv. and Val. 7, p. 194; Bleek. Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 23, 

 p. 25. 



CJmtodon vorticosus, Gronov. Syst. p. 74. 



Several large specimens were taken near Cape GrenvilJe. 



42. — SCATOPHAGUS MULTIFASCIATUS. 



Rich. Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, p. 57, pi. 35, f. 46. 

 Common at Cape York and Hall Sound. 



43. — Drepane punctata. 

 Chcetodon punctatus, L. Gin,, p. 1243, &c. 



„ longimanus, Bl. Schn., p. 231. 



„ fcdcatus, Lacep. 4, pp. 452-470, &c. 

 Ephippus punctatus longimanus, Cuv. Reg. Anims. 

 Direpane punctata, Cuv. and val. 7, p. 132, pi. 179, ifec. 



,, longimana, Cuv. and Val. 7, p. 133, <fec. 



Harpochirus punctatus and longimanus, Cant. Catal. pp. 1G2-1G3. 

 Cape York, very abundant. 



44. — Scorpis VINOSA. 

 Plate IX. Fig. 2. 



Height two and a half times in the total length. Snout small, 

 rounded, convex, without scales, and with numei-ous punctures. 

 Head naked on the forehead up to the eyes, and punctured. Space 

 between the eyes wide and convex. Outer teeth in a single row, 

 compressed and pointed. Upper maxillary scaly, extending nearly 

 to a line with the middle of the eye. Prseoperculum minutely ser- 

 rated. Operculum emarginate below the angle. Scales small, 

 those on the fins very small. Dorsal fin with ten spines, anal with 

 three of nearly equal length ; Soft dorsal and anal fins equal, 

 rounded and nearly vertical behind, and so covered with scales 

 as to make the number o the rays invisible. Caudal fin bilobed. 

 Colour of an uniform opaque claret hue. 



One specimen, 4 inches long, was taken at Darnley Island. 



