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Fig. 2. — Scorpis ceqiiipiniiis, Eichardson, 



This definition is based upon a large example, 323 mm. 

 long from the snout to the end of the middle caudal rays, 

 from near Fremantle, Western Australia. A second sliglitlj' 

 larger specimen is in the Australian Museum from Adelaide, 

 South Australia. 



Distribution. — South and South-western Australia. 



Scorpis lineolatus, Kner. 



Scorpiii lineolatus, Kner, Reise " Novara," Zool., i., Fische, 

 pt. 1, 1865, p. 108, pi. v., fig. 3. 



Scorpis cequipinnia, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., ii., 1860, 

 p. 64 (part). /(L, Bleeker, Nedei'l. Tijdsclir. Dierk., ii., 

 1865, p. 70. Id., Steindacliner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, liii. i., 1866, p. 436, and Ivi. i., 1867, p. 334. Id., 

 Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, iii., 1879, p. 376. 

 Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 

 397. Id., Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1886, p. 17, 

 and Ed. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1893, p. 38, pi. x. Id., Waite, 

 _ Mem. N.S.Wales Nat. Club, 1904, p. 35. Id., Stead, 

 '^ Ed. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1908, p. 79 (Not S. if^qnipinnis, 

 Richardson). 



CrPsiosoDia ivijnipiiniis, Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1899, 

 p. 84. Id., Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxi., 1908, 

 p. 25. 



