STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN PISHES — MCCULLOCH. 387 



Eviota zonura, Jordan and Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bur., xxv., 

 1005 (1906), p. 386. tig. 75. 



I have compared co-types of /','. zonura with the types of 

 Allogobius viridis and find them identical. I have no doubt 

 also, that some other members of this genus figured by Jordan 

 and Seale are merely variations of the one species. 



This species is common all along the Great Barrier Reef and 1 

 have collected it at Murray Island, Torres Strait; on the 

 Cairns Reef, off Cooktown ; and at Masthead Island, off Port 

 Curtis. It has not been previously recorded from Australia. 



Family SCOBPJENIDJE. 



Skua stops is scaber, "Ramsay and Ogilby. 



(Plate xiii., fig. 2). 



Sebastes scaber, Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, x., 1886, p. 577. 



Scorposna scabra, Ogilby, Mem. Austr. Mus., ii., 1889, p. 60. 



[Not Sebastopsis scabra, Jordan and Seale, Bull. IT. S. Fish, 

 Bur., xxv., 1906. p. 374, fig. 71.] 



I), xii., i/8-10; A. iii/5-6 ; P. 17-18 ; V. i./5 ; C. 13-15. 



Height of body 2| to 3^, length of head 24-2± in the length 

 to the hypural. Eye 2|-3 in the head. Snout §-f in the eye. 



Head with large spines and rough scales, only the snout 

 naked. Orbital margin with three spines above, followed by a 

 single postocular one on either side ; between the last are 

 usually two small spines directed outwards. There are two 

 occipital spines on either side, the anterior of which arise 

 behind the level of the postocular spines. Two infraorbital 

 ridges terminating in spines posteriorly. A strong spine above 

 and between the nostrils. A series of bony ridges from in 

 front of the eye to the preopercnlnm, ai*med with a spine below 

 the eye and another near the preopercular margin ; the latter 

 bears a double spine on the same line and two others below it. 

 Operculum with two spines. The pterotic, post-temporal, 

 suprascapular and clavicle bones each bear a spine. The 

 margin of the preorbital is very sinuous but not spiniferous. 

 Anterior nostril with a large tentacle, while others may be 



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