22 RFCOKDS or THE ArsTKAI.lAX M^^;KrM. 



D. xii/15; A. ii/16; p. 15; Y. i/3 ; C. 13. Depth 3.1 in the length 

 to the hvpural joint; head 3.6 in the same. Eye 3.4 in the head; intei'- 

 orbital space about 4.5 in the eye. First dorsal spine 0.4 longer than the 

 head. Tliird dorsal ray 1.2, eighth anal ray 1.9 in the head. 



Head rounded, about as high as long. 'No occipital crest. A branched 

 tentacle, divided into several tilaments, is present at each anterior nostril 

 and above the eyes; a i"ow of simple tentacles extends from the nape on 

 each side towards the gill-opening, but is slightly interrupted on the 

 median line. Upper lip fringed with obtuse lobules. A single row of 

 fine teeth in each jaw, and a rather large, curved, internal canine on each 

 side of the mandible. 



Dorsal fin deeply notched, originating above the operculum, the 

 spinous a little longer than the soft; the anterior spines are filamentous 

 and decrease backwai'ds, but the penultimate is as long as the anterior 

 rav, and as long as the postoi'bital portion of the head. Dorsal rays 

 highest in the anterior portion of the fin, deci^easing slightly backwards, 

 the last united with the base of the caudal. Anal spines surmounted by 

 thickened, globular, and fleshy appendages; the rays increasing in length 

 ti)wai'ds the posterior portion of the fin, the last not united with the 

 peduncle by membrane. Pectoral obtusely pointed, the rays simple, the 

 fifth lowest longest. Median ventral ray longest, reaching more than half 

 its distance from the vent, the inner ray slender and closely adpressed to 

 to the second. Caudal subtruncate, the inner rays bifurcate. 



Colour. — Uniform brown after long preservation. Some minute light 

 spots behind the pectorals are possibly the remnants of colour marking. 



Described from the holotype of the species 70 mm. long, which proves 

 its original description to be inaccurate in several important details. The 

 dorsal and anal rays number 15 and 16 respectively, instead of 20 and 20. 

 Large curved mandibular canines are present, but are difiicult to detect 

 owing to the shrivelled condition of the specimen. Nasal tentacles are 

 present on the anterior nostrils only, instead of on every nostril as 

 described. Notwithstanding these discrepancies, the specimen is cleai'ly 

 that upon which the name was based. 



This species is very similar to, and possibly identical with C. van'olo- 

 sns (Cuvier and Valenciennes) Giinther, but the holotype has the anterior 

 dorsal spines longer than is usual in that species. 



Lnc. — Cape York; holotype. Mr. Ogilby has very kindly re-examined 

 the specimens which he recoi'ded from Darn ley Island, Torres Sti^it, as 

 SiditriKs alboapicalis, and infoi'ms us that they are really C jilatueiitosiis. 



CiRRlPECTKS ALBOAPICALIS, Oqilhy. 



(Plate iv., fig. 4.) " 

 Sdhirias rtir/o/os/(s, Ogilby, Mem. Austr. Mus., ii., 18S!), p. 62 (not N. 



vnridloaus, Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Suliirid.i albuitjiicidis, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W'aU's, xxiii., 18l>!», p. 



712. I(J., Waite, Rec.'Austr. Mus., v. 3, 1904, p. 224. 



This species has been considered synonymous with S. rariolusu'^ 

 (Y Cuvier and Valenciennes), Giinther^ but a comparison of seventeen 

 specimens from Ijord Howe Island, with six of (.'. varialosiiti from flie New- 

 Hebrides, shows that they differ consistently iu the following details : 



a <al anther— Fische Siidsee. vi., 1877, p. 203, pi. cxvi., fig. a. 



