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(BoviCHTHYS, Cuv. et Yal.) 



(B. variegatus, Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 56, 

 1846.) 

 Gunther Cat. II, p. 250; Macleay Cat. 419. 

 Figured, Voy. Erebus and Terror, pi. 34. 

 Loc. — One dried specimen from Hobson's Bay, Castelnau, 

 P.Z.S. Vict. II, p. 45. 



FAMILY PEDICULATI. 



Chironectes, Cuvier. 



C. bifnrcatus, M'Coy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Decade 13, 1886. 

 Figured, M'Coy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 123. 

 Loc— Port Phillip, M'Coy, I.e. 



FAMILY COTTINA. 

 Platycephalus, B1. 



[P. speculator, Kliinzinger, Archiv. f. Naturg., 1872.) 

 Macleay Cat. Sup. 1197. 

 Loc. — Hobson's Bay, Kliinzinger. 



P. basse7isis, Cuv. et Val., Poissons IV, p. 247, 1829. 

 Giinther Cat. II, p. 179 ; Macleay Cat. 444. 

 Syn. — P. iasmaniiis, Richardson, Voy. Erebus and 



Terror, p. 23. 

 Figured, Voy. Erebus and Terror, pi. 18. 

 Loc— Port Phillip. 

 Vernacular name — Flathead. 



P. fuscus, Cuv. et Val., Poissons IV, p. 241, 1829. 

 Macleay Cat. 445. 

 Figured, Voy. Astrolabe, pi. 10. 

 Loc— Port Phillip. 

 Vernacular name — Grass Flathead. 



P. loevigatus, Cuv. et Val., Poissons IV, p. 243, 1829. 

 Giinther Cat. II, p. 179 ; Macleay Cat. 446. 

 Loc — Port Phillip, Western Port. 

 Vernacular name — Rock Flathead. 



{P. proximus, Castelnau, P.Z.S. Vict. I, p. 85, 1872.) 

 Macleay Cat. 447. 

 Loc. — Only seen once in Melbourne market, Castelnau, I.e. 



P. richardsoni, Castelnau, P.Z.S. Vict. I, p. 82, 1872. 

 Macleay Cat. 448. 



P. grandis, Castelnau sp., P.Z.S. Vict. I, p. 87, 1872. 

 Macleay Cat. 457. 

 Syn. — Neoplatycephalus grandis, Castelnau, I.e. 



