80 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



The ventral process is but little extensible, and its spine is 

 small and granular. The pectoral is rounded and its third ray 

 is one-fifth longer than the eye. The caudal is short and rounded, 

 the peduncle is stout, its height being half the length of the fin. 



The whole of the head and body, the bases of the vertical fins 

 and the outer aspect of the alternate caudal rays uniformly 

 covered with small bifurcated spines, so densely placed as to give 

 a velvety feel to the touch. 



Colours. — -The colours are not well preserved, but as far as 

 ascertainable are as follows : — Uniformly dark brown, the body 

 marked with narrow longitudinal black lines about as wide as or 

 narrower than the interspaces. Immediately behind the head 

 they are about twelve in number but are successively lost 

 posteriorly and none attain to the caudal peduncle, the head and 

 lower fourth of the body, except in the region of the pelvic spine, 

 are without markings. Fins pale brown. 



Total length 300 mm. Taken at Sharks Bay. 



At the request of Mr. Woodward, this fish is named after Mr. 

 C. F. Gale, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, Western Australia. 



PsEUDOMONACANTHUS HiPPOCREPis, Quojj d Goimard. 



Balistes hipjjocrepis, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. " Uranie et Physi- 

 cienne," 1824, p. 212. 



Loc. — Mandurah ; Fremantle ; Houtman's Abrolhos ; Rottnest 

 Island. 



PSEUDOMONACANTHUS GRANULATUS, Shaw. 



Batistes r/ranitlatus, Shaw, in White's Yoy. IST. S. Wales, 1790, p. 

 29.5", fig. 2. 



Loc. — Mandurah ; Fremantle ; Houtman's Abrolhos. 



PsEUDOMONACANTHUS BROWNii, Richardson. 



Aleuterius hnnniii, Richardson, Voy. "Ereb and Terr.", Ichth., 

 1846, p. 68. 



hoc. — Fremantle. 



CHiETODERMIS PENICILLIGERUS, Cuvier. 



Balistes nenicilliqerm, Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2., ii, 1829, p. 

 374' (footnote), and iii., 1830. p. 433, pi xi., fig. 3. 



