Pd.MK AI'SII.'Al.tAN lU.KXXKHIi I'lSllKS McCri,l,( if'll AN'l" .^rc N'KI [,l.. 



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Tliis species is allied to N. »/*7('((;///.'<', hut dift'cis in imviiip; more 

 iimiieriuis dorsal and anal rays, and in lac-kins: nnclinl tentacles ; the colour 

 marking also is different. 



It is not improbable that S. gemi'iiatiis is merely the male I'dini of 

 (S. ihti^sitnn'en'. The two species are similar in all structural details, and 

 the differences in the colour marking are m)t more pronounced than those 

 we find in the sexual forms of >S'. rirnJatiis. 



Litcf. — Toi'res Strait; holotype of N. iie)iiiiiiifii>). Darnley Island, 

 Tori'es Sti'ait ; holotype of N. crif^tiri'ii^. Murray Island, ToriTS Strait; 

 coll. Hedley and McCuUoch. 



Cl KKM PKC'TH;s Su'dilixO)). 



('iniju'ctes, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classitic. Fish. Amph. Rept., ii., 1839, 

 pp. 182, 275 (Snlitrii(>' rdridhi.-nts^ Cuvier and Valenciennes), ('irri- 

 pectnx, Id, /?'/(/., p. 7!». Itl, Weber, " Siboga " Kxped., h'ii., 1918, 

 p. 536. 

 .'' I'Ja^tdliKs, Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bui-., xxiii. i., l!H)5, p. 

 50;) (Siihtn'its hreris, Kner). 



This genus includes the species of Siihiri(tt< which have a row of cirri 

 crossing the neck to the opercular lobes, and the upper lip fringed with 

 short tentacles; a curved internal canine is present on each side of the 

 mandible. In addition to the genotype, S. variolosus, C. and V., this 

 genus includes S. variolatns, Cuvier and Valenciennes (^^ S. citvieri, 

 (liinther), N. i^ebae, Cuvier and Valenciennes and S. aJI>(H(2)iriilis, Ogilby, 

 Weber regards ExaJliax as synonymous Avith Cirrlpei'tes, but its genotype. 

 E. hrecis, Kner, apparently lacks mandibular canines. 



ClRRIl'KCTES FILAMKNTUSUS, AJh'ijiie und M^nrh'uy. 



Siddridd iiJdDtevtosiis, AUeyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S.Wales, 

 i., 1877, p. 337, pi. xiv., fig. 1. hi, Macleay, Ibid., vi., 1881, p. 12. 



N<(/<(/i'«o; alboapicidi.'^, Ogilbv, Mem. Qld. Mus., ii., 1913, p. 90 (not of 

 Ogilbv, 1899). 



Fig. 1. — Cir7-ipertes jilavieittoxK.f, Alleyne aiid Macleav. TTolntypo, 70 mm. 

 long, from Cape York. 



