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and the ventral fins covering the vent.i As these are 

 characters of my smaller specimens, and as Regan's example 

 appears to agree with 0. woodwardi in all other details, it is 

 perhaps an aberrant specimen of that species. 



Locs. — Great Australian Bight, 80-120 fathoms. 



South of Kangaroo Island, South Austraha. 



Family MONODACTYLID.E. 

 Genus Monodactylus, Lacepede. 



MONODACTYLUS ABGENTEUS, LinnCBUS. 



Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus), Jordan & Seale, Brdl. 



U.S. Fish. Bur., xxv., 1906, p. 237, fig. 30. 

 A single specimen is preserved from seven miles N.N.E. of 

 Bowen, Queensland, 16 fathoms ; 3rd August, 1916. 



Family SCORPIDID^. 

 Genus Atypichthys, Gunther. 

 Atypichthys strigatus, Gunther. 



Atypus strigatus, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., u., 1860, 

 p. 64. 



Locs. — Fifteen specimens are preserved from the following 

 locahties : — 



Eight miles east of Sandon Bluffs, New South Wales, 35-40 

 fathoms ; 24th April, 1910. 



Five to seven miles south-east of Cape Moreton Light, 

 Queensland, 49-51 fathoms ; 5th September, 1910. 



Genus Neatypus, Waite. 



Neatypus obliquus, Waite. 



Neatypus obliquus, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., pt. 2, 1905, 



p. 65, pi. X. 

 Loc. — Two specimens are in the collection from Western 

 Austraha, between Cape Naturahste and Geraldton. 



Family PLATACIDyE. 



Genus Platax, Cuvier. 



Platax novemaculeatus, sp. nov. 



(Plate Iv., fig. 1.) 



D. ix. 29 ; A. iii. 22 ; P. 20 ; V. i. 5 ; C. 17. Depth be- 

 tween the first dorsal and ventral spines 1.4 in the length to 



1. As I have been informed by Mr. Regan by letter. 



