190 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Described and figured from a specimen 138 mm. long. 

 Twenty-two others, 108-134 mm. long, do not exhibit any 

 variation. They differ from all other species of Platax in 

 having nine dorsal spines. 



Locs. — Four to twenty miles N.E. of Gloucester Head, 

 Queensland, 19-35 fathoms ; 2nd August, 1910. 



Seven miles N.N.E. of Bowen, Queensland, 16 fathoms; 

 3rd August, 1910. 



Family DREPANID.E. 



Genus Drepane, Cuvier db Valenciennes. 



Drepane punctata, Gmelin. 



Drepane punctata (Gmehn), Day, Fish. India, 1875, p. 116, 

 pi. xxix., fig. 5. 



Loc. — Fifteen specimens, 100-139 mm. long, are preserved 

 from seven miles N.N.E. of Bowen, Queensland, 16 fathoms ; 

 3rd August, 1910. 



Family CH^TODONTID^. 



Genus ParacHjETODON, Bleeker. 



Parach^todon ocellatus, Cuvier <fc Valenciennes. 



Platax ocellatus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



vii., 1831, p. 229. 

 Parachcetodon ocellatus, Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., ix., 1878, p. 24, 

 pi. ccclxxvii., fig. 4 (synonym v) ; Id., Ogilby, Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. Qld., xxi., 1908, p. 25. 

 Chcetodon oligacanthus, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., xxiii., 1850, 

 Chsetod., p. 16. ; Id., Macleav, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, ii., 1878, p. 351, and" v., 1881, p. 388 ; Id., 

 Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, 

 p. 360. 

 Chcetodon townlei, de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ix., 



1884, p. 454. 

 Colour. — Silvery, \Wth five cross-bars. The first yellow, 

 black-edged, and forked on the occiput, whence it sends back 

 a spur along the median ridge of the nape ; it curves down- 

 ward through the eye, across the cheek and interopercle, and 

 backward to meet its fellow or be lost on the side of the throat. 

 The second is oHve-brown, mesially golden, and black-edged ; 

 it extends from the first dorsal spine over and behind the 

 opercular edge through the base of the pectoral, and bends 

 strongly backward to behind the ventral. The third and 



