10 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



TILODON AUSTRALIS Thomlnot 



Tilodon australis (Guichenot) Thominot, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, ser. 

 7, vol. 5, 1881, p. 140. Australia. 

 Depth 2K; head 4. Snout moderate, nearly long as eye, which 

 33^ in head. Lower jaw longer. Teeth in jaws fiUform, in crescen- 

 tic patch on palate. Scales 100 in lateral line, 21 above, 40 to 45 

 below. D. IX, 20; A. Ill, 18, fin round and entirely scaled; P. i, 

 13; V. I, 5. Brown. Brown circle around eye, descends on cheek 

 and ends at thorax. Also 5 brov/n bands, broad, inclined in same 

 manner. Band at caudal base. Length 410 mm. (Thominot.) 



Genus PARASCORPIS Bleeker 



Parascorpis Bleeker, Arch. N6erland. Sci. Nat. Haarlem, vol. 10, 1875, p. 



380. Type Parascorpis typus Bleeker, monotypic 

 Atyposoma Boulenger, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 1, 1899, p. 379. 



Type Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, monotypic. 



Differs from Atyposoma in the presence of an opercular spine and 

 spinous dorsal longer basally than soft dorsal. 



Although placed with the Serranidae by Boulenger we have fol- 

 lowed Jordan in associating it with the present family. 



PARASCORPIS TYPUS Bleeker 



Parascorpis typus Bleeker, Arch. N(5erland. Sci. Nat. Haarlem, vol. 10, 

 1875, p. 381, pi. 7. Caps of Good Hopc—Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Bnt. 

 Mus!, vol. 1, 1895, p. 145 (copied).— Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., 

 vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, p. 664 (South Africa and type of Atyposoma 



gurneyi). 

 Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 1, 1899, p- 



379, pi. 9. False Bay, Cape of Good Hope. 

 Depth 2^; head 2%. Snout 3^ in head from snout tip; eye 

 43^, sUghtly less than snout. Maxillary reaches opposite hind eye 

 edge, expansion 1^ in eye. Villiform teeth in jaws and on palate. 

 Preopercle finely serrated. Scales very small, 130 in lateral line, 

 pores 40, 20 scales above, 55 below. Head and soft vertical fins 

 finely scaled. D. XII, 15; A. Ill, 14; median spines longer, little 

 higher than soft rays. Caudal emarginate. Paired fins subequal, 

 1% in head. Uniform brown. Length 193 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Genus DOIDYXODON Thominot 



Doidyxodon (Guichenot) Thominot, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, ser. 7 

 vol. 5, 1881, p. 143. Type Doidyxodon australis (Guichenot) Thominot 

 monotypic. [Dcydixodon Valenciennes not involved.] 

 Teeth trenchant, curved, biserial, besides inner villiform band. 

 Palate edentulous? Preopercle edge finely dentate. Cheeks scaled. 

 Fins scaleless. Scales on body ciliated. 



