216 RECOUPS -OF THE ATSTHALIAX MUSEUM. 



form. Pectorals rounded, reacliiug to about midway between the two 

 dorsal fins. Ventrals larger than the pectorals, with a broad basal 

 membrane, and reaching to the origin of the anal. Caudal feebly rounded. 



Colour-mnrlcing. — Light olive on the back, whitish on the sides and 

 under surfaces ; the upper parts are closel}- freckled with grey dots and 

 lines, which unite to form about five darker cross-bai'S on the back. The 

 middle of the sides bear five daiker blotches formed of black dots, the 

 most pronounced of which is at the base of the tail. The sides are 

 vertically barred with about thirteen grey stripes, which are most 

 pronounced anteriorly. A dark stripe extends from the eye to the 

 preorbital, and another descends across the operculum. First doi'sal with 

 many small grey dots between the rays; on the second they tend to form 

 lai'gei" spots. Caudal and pectoral with transverse rows of grey spots on 

 the rays. Anal and ventral colourless. 



Described and figured from a specimen 86 mm. long, from Wedge 

 Bay, Tasmania. 



Variati(y)i. — A series of twenty-five specimens, 33-62 mm. long, taken 

 with the larger exam])le described, exhibits considerable variation in the 

 colour-marking, and in the numbers of spines and raj's in the vertical fins. 

 The vertical transverse bars may be either wholly wanting, or they may 

 be even more distinct and more regularly arranged than illustrated, and 

 they sometimes meet on the dorsal and ventral surfaces so as to form complete 

 annuli ai'ound the body. The lateral blotches vary in their intensity, 

 and are sometimes much larger thaji in the figured specimen, particulaily in 

 those which lack the vertical bars. ]n six examples we count D. viii/11- 

 12 ; A. 11-12 instead of vii/9 and 9 as described above. 



Ideiitltji ami sijnoiiyiny. — These specimens agree with Castelnau's 

 description in most details, and the fact that they have eight dorsal spines 

 leaves little doubt that they are correctly identified as (j. plctus. The 

 type of (}. hinshiji is preserved in the Tasmanian jMuseum, and has been 

 examined by one of »is ; though in a veiy bad state of jireservation, it 

 leaves no doubt as to its identity witli the specimen described above. 



Jjoc. — AVedge Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, 5-10 fathoms; coll. C. Hedley, 

 April, 1917. Queenscliff, Port Phillip, Victoria ; coll. E. R. Waite, 

 1905. 



Genus Callogohius, lileeker. 



Calloffohius, Bleekei', Arch. Ni'erl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 318 (Eleotn's 

 hasseUil, Bleeker). Id., Webei', " Siboga " Exped., Ivii., 1913, p. 479. 

 Id., McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xl., 1915, p. 271. 



Mucogohius, McCulloch, Hec. W.Austr. Mns., i., 1912, p. 93 (Gohins 

 viHCosus, Giinthei). 



Body subcylimlrical anteriorly, compressed posteriorly ; scales of 

 moderate size, largest posterioily ; they are mostly cycloid, but more or 

 less ctenoid jjosteriorl}' ; they extend forward almost to the eyes on the 

 upper surface of the head, and cover the breast and base of the pectoral. 

 Head with a few scales on the up[)ei' part of the 0{)erculum, and others 



