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RECORDS OF THB AUSTRALIAN AlUSEUM. 



snout wliicli is one foui'th that of the head. Interorljital space 

 scaly, tlie anterior part with a l)road flap covering the posterior 

 nostril. Anterior nostril tubular, situated midway between the 

 end of the snout and the lower eye Head and body, with the 

 exception of the snout, covered on both sides with small ctenoid 

 scales which on the coloured side, extend over the bases of the 

 fin rays. No lateral line. The dorsal fin 

 commences over the front edge of the eyes, its 

 middle rays equal in length to those of the 

 anal, 3-6 in the height of the body and shorter 

 than the caudal, which is pointed. Anal 

 separated from the ventral by a space nearly 

 equal to the snout. 



Colour light brown witliout darker 

 markings. Peritoneum black, showing 



through the abdominal walls. Blind-side 

 Fig. 55. colourless. 



A single specimen 120 mm. long agrees fairly well with Gilbert's 

 <lescription, but differs in having a somewhat deeper body and 

 shorter head. Tlie eyes also are smaller than as shown in his 

 figure and the snout longer. In all other characters however it 

 appears too closely related to S. sftucfiis to admit of specific dis- 

 tinction. 



SCORP^NID^. 



ScORPiENA (Helicolenus) PERCOiDES, Jilchardsoii. 



Sebastes percoides, Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ix., 1842, 

 p. 384; Voy. " Ereb. and Terr.," ii., 1845, p. 23, pi. xv. 



One specimen, a female with unripe ova, 3G3 nmi. long. 

 Colours in life, pink suff'used with yellow, with indistinct darker 

 cross-bars. Pectorals, dorsal and caudal pink, the spinous fin 

 deeper coloured than the others. Ventrals and anal white. Iris 

 golden, surrounded with pink. 



(Note. — All the scales were rubbed off the sides by the spinels 

 •of echini taken in the same haul. Otiierwise the cross-liars may 

 iiave been more niaiked). 



Richardson assigned this species to the genus Srbasfps, but was 

 corrected by Giinther- who transferred it to Scorpa'na. Waite" 



'^ Gunther -Cliallenger Rcpt., Zool, xxii., 1887, p 17. 

 a Waite "Mem. Aust. Miis., iv., 1899, ]j. 100. 



