64 SUUAMIPINNKS. 



I . Scorpis georgianus. 

 Cm: ^- Val viii. p. 503. pi. 245. 



The soft dorsal and anal faleate, the anterior rays being elevated. 

 Uniform brownish. 



King George's Sound. 

 a. Adult : skin : not good state. Australia. 



2. Scorpis chilensis. 

 Gai/, Hist. CM. ZooJ. ii. p. 220 ; Ltinl lam. 6. f. 1. 

 D-i^- A. A 

 The posterior and inferior margins of the prreoperculum finely 

 serrated ; the dorsal and anal fins are not falcate, the rays becoming 

 gradually shorter posteriorly. Coloration uniform. {Gay.) 

 Island of Juan Fernandez. 



3. Scorpis sequipiniiis. 



Richards. Voy. Ereb. Sf Terr. Fishes, p. 121. 

 D.^- A.I. 

 The lower margin only of the pra?operculum finely serrated. The 

 dorsal and anal fins are not falcate, the rays becoming gradually 

 shorter posteriorly. Coloration uniform. 

 Coasts of Australia. 



a. Adult: skin. Swan River. Voyage of H. M.S. Fly. 



b, c. Half-grown : skins. Port Jackson. Purchased of Mr. Gould. 



d. Half-grown : sldn. Australia. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 



e. Half-grown : skin. King George's Sound. — Type of the species. 



11. ATYPUS*. 



Body compressed, oblong ; snout rather short ; cleft of the mouth 

 small, with the jaws equal. One dorsal with eleven spines, the 

 anal with thi-ee ; the soft portions only enveloped in scales. Scales 

 rather small, ctenoid. Villiform teeth in the jaws and on the vomer ; 

 none on the palatine bones. Prseoperculum denticulated. Branchio- 

 stegals seven ; air-bladder bifurcate anteriorly and posteriorly ; 

 pyloric appendages in moderate number. 



Coasts of Australia. 



1. Atypus strigatus. 

 B. 7. T>.~. A.-^.. L.lat. 70-75. L. tran.sv. ii. CfEc.pylor.il. 



15-10 lj-16 20 '^ •' 



Body with five or six brown, pai'allel, longitudinal bands. 

 a. Adult: skin. Swan Kiver. Voyage of H. M.S. Fly. 



* From uri'rros, without any distinct aflhiitj to a typical Ibrui of a family. 



