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Scales very fine, especially on head and breast. Ends of dorsal 

 spines only slightly free from scaly base. Soft dorsal and anal with 

 slight though distinct anterior lobe. Reaches 323 mm. according to 

 McCulloch. South and South-western Australia. 



SCORPIS LINEOLATUS Kner 



Scorpis lineolatus Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 108, pi. 5, fig. 3. 

 Sydney. — McCulloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 11, No. 7, 1917, p. 178 

 (New South Wales); Australian ZooL, vol. 2, pt. 3, 1922, p. 90, pi. 26, 

 fig. 227a (New South Wales) . 



Scorpis aequipinnis (not Richardson) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. AIus. vol. 

 2, 1860, p. 64 (Port Jackson). — Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, 1865, 

 p. 70 (Fort Jackson) .— Steind.\chner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 53, 

 Heft 1, 1866, p. 436 (Port Jackson); vol. 56, Heft 1, 1867, p. 334 (Port Jack- 

 son). — Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, 1867, p. 58 (New 

 South Wales and Sydney). — Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 3, 1879, p. 376 (Port Jackson) . — Maclray, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 5, 1881, p. 397 ( Port Jackson).— Ogilby, Cat. Fish. New 

 South Wales, 1886, p. 17; Edible Fish New South Wales, 1893, p. 38, pi. 

 10. — Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369, (Queensland). — Waite, Mem. 

 New South Wales Nat. Club, 1904, p. 35.— Stead, Edible Fish New South 

 Wales, 1908, p. 79.— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1923, p. 

 44 (Melbourne). 



Caesiosoma aequipinnis Waite, Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, pt. 1, 1899, p. 

 84 (Schnapper Rock and Young Bucks). — Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens- 

 land, vol. 21, 1908, p. 25 (off Moreton Bay) .—Waite, Rec. Australian Mus., 

 vol. 5, pt. 3, 1904, p. 167 (Lord Howe Island). 



Scorpis richardsonii Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 53, Heft 

 1, 1866, p. 437, pi. 5, fig. 1. Port Jackson. 



Agenor modestus Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, 1879, 

 pp. 350, 371. Port Jackson. — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 5, 1881, p. 368 (Port Jackson).— Ogilby, Cat. Fish. New South Wales', 

 1886, p. 12.— Vaillant, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 3, 1897 p 86 

 (type). 



Scales about 90 along lateral line. Scales on head and breast mod- 

 erate. Dorsal rays 25 to 27, anal 27 to 29. New South Wales, Vic- 

 toria, and Southern Queensland, 



The example, an adult, reported by Fowler from Victoria is evi- 

 dently this species, though has spoiled so as not to be available for 

 further examination. 



59880 U.S.N.M. Port Jackson, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Six e.xamples 



Length 100 to 122 mm. 

 29001 U.S.N.M. North Mount Maclay. Austrahan Museum. Length 332 mm. 

 47843 U.S.N.M. Deliniquin. Australian Museum. Two examples. Length 



143 to 160? mm. 



SCORPIS UTHOPHILUS Gilchrist and Thompson 



Scorpis lithophihis Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afr. Mus., vol. 6, 

 1908, p. 162. Natal. — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt 2 

 Oct. 1927, p. 663, pi. 28, fig. 1 (Natal). 



Scales 90 to 95. Dorsal VIII, 20; anal III, 23 or 24. Length, 

 260 mm. 



