FISHES FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA — WAITE. 61 



An example taken by the trawl between Houtman's Abrolhos 

 and the mainland is an addition to the fauna of Western 

 Australia. The species was previously known only from Eastern 

 Australia, southward to Port Jackson. 



Tt is evident fi'om Dr. Boulenger's^ account of the distribution 

 of the genus that the Mauritius species is referable to JF. 

 jajjwiicus and not to M. (jloria-maris as might be suspected. 



AcANTiiisTlus SERRATUS, C uviev (t Valencienues. 

 Flectropoma serratum, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 ii., 182S, p. 399. 



Hitherto the coast of New South Wales has been regarded as 

 the restricted habitat of this species, though specimens recorded 

 from " Australia" may have been obtained from other coasts. 



The collection includes three specimens, two of whicli are 

 normal and indistinguishable from examples taken in Port 

 Jackson ; the third has, in addition to the usual spots, four dark 

 vertical bands, wider than the interspaces ; the first embraces the 

 occiput and the first two dorsal spines, the second the sixth to 

 eleventh spines, the third is at the base of the anterior rays and 

 the fourth includes the hinder rays and portion of the caudal 

 peduncle, the two last, only, reach the ventral profile. There are 

 also markings on the head similar to those of A. cinctus. 

 Examples from New South Wales have been, though rarely, seen 

 in which similar markings are traceable, though in a much less 

 degree than in the example above described. 



Loc. — Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Centrogexys vaigexsis, Quoy (t Gaimard. 



Scorpmna vaige^isis, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. " Uranie et Physic- 

 ienne," 1824, p. 324, pi. Iviii., fig. 1. 



Loc. — North West Australia. 



Epinepiielus fasciatus, Fomkal. 

 rercafasc.iata, Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 40. 

 Loc. — Houtman's Abrolhos. 



CoLPOGXATHUS DENTEX, Cuviev & Valeuciemie.^, 



Flectropoma dentex, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii., 

 1828. p. 394. 



Loc. — Houtman's Abi'olhos. 



* Boulenger. — Cambridge Nat. Hist., vii., Fishe-s, 1904, p. 656. 



