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lower limb of the prpeoperculum are differently situated, and we 

 have also an extra ray in the dorsal. The examples described by 

 the authors quoted above having been obtained in Western 

 Australia, it is probable that this form now under consideration 

 is an eastern representative, which, should the differences in form, 

 color and locality prove constant, would have to be raised to the 

 rank of a local race or subspecies. A specimen in the Macleay 

 Museum appears to agree with ours. 



Early in the month I obtained by the trawl a fine example .of 

 Callionymus calcaraius, Macleay, and having had an opportunity 

 of examining the type specimens, 1 wish to correct a typographical 

 error which has crept into the original description, and is likely to 

 create difficulty in future. Mr. Macleay says, speaking of the 

 prseopercular spine, " strong, flat, with a strong spur on the jiosterior 

 half of the outer side pointing backwards, and three on the inner 

 side pointing inwards and hackivards " (1). I find that the spine is 

 bent inwards at the tip, and armed on the inside with three, some- 

 times four, additional spinules, all of which are directed forwards 

 as also is a stout straight spinule, which springs from the outside 

 angle of the spine in its anterior half ; it is not nearly so long as 

 the diameter of the eye ; the anal is pure white, both rays and 

 webs. My fish measures 8f inches, which is much longer than any 

 of the type specimens. 



On the 13th ultimo we obtained in the trawl up Middle 

 Harbour a magnificent Ammotretis, a genus of which very few 

 individual examples are known ; as the lateral line is distinctly 

 curved this cannot be Dr. Gunther's species from Tasmania, from 

 which it also differs in its greater depth, smaller head and longer 

 snout. It is probable that the species described by Mr. Macleay 

 as A. zonatus is identical with our fish, the banded appearance, 

 which induced him to give it the specific name, having been caused 

 by contact, when dying, with some foreign stibstance, and as the 

 name " zonatus " is unsuitable and misleading, I would suggest 

 that this fine species should be re-named Macleayi in honour of 



(1) In my specimen, and in one of Mr. Macleay's types, there are thi'ee 

 inner spinules on one side and four on the other. 





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