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Scorpasna percoides, Solander. 



Sforpsma barathri, Hector, Trans. New ZeaL Inst., vol. vii p. 245, pi. x., 1875; Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 1875, p. 80. 



This species, which is not uncommon along the coasts of Southern Australia, Tasmania, 

 and New Zealand, descends to a depth of 400 fathoms, so far as is known at present. In 

 the Report on the Shore Fishes of the Challenger Expedition, I have already recorded 

 its occurrence at Twofold Bay in 120 fathoms. Another specimen, 4 inches long, was 

 obtained in 275 fothoms at Station 166, in the neighbourhood of New Zealand. Finally, 

 a very young specimen, 2 inches long, captured off Matuka, Fiji Islands (Station 173), 

 in 215 fathoms, on July 24, 1874, belongs without doubt to the same species. 



The S23ecimen from which Dr. Hector drew up the description of his Scorpaena 

 harathri, and which is said to have been oljtained in 400 fathoms off Cape Farewell, is 

 also identical with this species. The length of the tliii-d and fourth dorsal sjjines varies 

 somewhat, l:)eing sometimes rather more, and at other times rather less than two-fifths 

 of the length of the head. 



I have now had an opportunity of examining a skeleton of Scorpwna percoides ; its 

 spine is composed of ten abdominal and fifteen caudal vertebrae, and therefore this 

 species must be referred to Scorpasna, of which genus the vertebral formula j^ is 

 characteristic. 



Scorpsena dactyloptera, de la Roche. 



Sehastes dactylopterus, fUinth., Fish., ii. p. 99. 

 ,, „ CoUett, Norges Fisk., p. 19. 



„ „ Lilljeborg, Sveriges Fisk., p. 107. 



This species, which has been known for many years from the Mediterranean and 



Madeira, occurs also on the coast of Norway, where it is not uncommon in depths of from 



1 00 to 300 fathoms. 



Other species of this genus also occur at considerable depths, but as it is not known to 

 what depth they descend, they are omitted from the bathybial fauna at present. 



Sebastes, Gthr. 

 Sebastes marinus. 



Perm marijui, Linni-. 

 Suhastes norweijiciix, Cuv. Val. 



„ „ Collett, Norges Fisk., p. 19. 



Sebastes marinus, Liitk., Vid. Mcddel. nat. Foren. Kjobenhavn, )). 358, 1876. 



„ „ Collett, Norsk. Nordh. Exped., Fisk., p. 15; Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. Christ., 



1880, No. 1, p. 7. 



„ „ Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. iii. p. 480, 1881. 



„ „ Lilljeborg, Sveriges Fisk., p. 92. 



On the Norwegian expedition (1876) specimens were obtained at depths varying from 

 123 to 147 fathoms, and others on the American coast by the U.S. steamer "Fish 



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