I 



1. TEXJXHIS. 321 



state) : body with brown spots, M'hich are smaller thuii tlie interspaces 

 between, and confluent on the back into short, narrow, vermicuhited 

 streaks. 



Port Essington. 



a. Adult : skin. Coral Bay. — Type of the species, 

 18. Teuthis fuscescens. 



Centrogaster fuscescens, Houtt. Act. Soc. Harlem, xx, p. 333 ; LacSp, 



iii. p. 307. 

 Ampliacauthus fuscescens, Cuv. ^- Val. x. p. 156 ; Sclileg. Faun. Japan. 



Puiss. p. 127. pi. 08. fig. 1 ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxvi., 



Japan, p. 106. 

 ? Amphacanthus aurantiacus, Schleg. I. c. p. 128 (variety ?). 



The height of the body is contained three times and a half in the 

 total length. Caudal fm scarcely emarginate. Uniform browTiish. 

 Coast of Nagasaki. 



19. Teuthis lurida. 



I Amphacanthus luridus, {^Ehrenb.) RUpp.Atl. Fische, p. 45; Cuv. ^ Val. 

 X. p. 150. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length. Caudal 

 fin subtmncated ; the fourth dorsal spine equals the distance of the 

 snout from the posterior margiu of the orbit. Blackish-brown, irre- 

 gularly marbled with lighter. 



Red Sea. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Red Sea. From Dr. Riippell's Collection. 

 20. Teuthis nebulosa. 



? Amphacanthus punctatus, Bl. Sc/in. p. 210 ; Cuv. ^- Val. x. p. 146 ; 



Forst. Descr. Aitim. ed. Licht. p. 28(5. 

 Amphacanthus nebulosus, Quay 4" Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 369 ; 



Cuv. (§• Val. X. p. 164 ; Sc/ilc;}. ^- lliill. I. c. p. 12. 



maculosus, Quoi/ i.S' Guim. I. c. p. 370. 



— — gj'mnopareius, liicJiards. Ann. ^ Mag. Nut. Hist. 1843, xi. p. 174. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length. Caudal fin 

 deeply emarginate. Dorsal spines slender ; the length of the fourth is 

 less than the distance of the snout from the posterior margin of the 

 orbit. Brown, irregularly marbled with darker. 



Coasts of Australia and of the islands north of it. — A di'awing in 

 the possession of Sir J. E. Tennent appears to indicate the occurrence 

 of this species in the Sea of Ceylon. 



a-d. Half-groAvn. Sydney. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



e. Adult : skin. Coral Bay (Port Essington). — Type of A. gymno- 



pareius. 

 f-k. Adult and half-grown : skins. Australia. 

 l~m, n-q. Half-grown : bad state. From the Haslar Collection. 

 r. Adult : stuffed. 



The original drawing of Forster agrees well with our specimens of 



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