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a prawn will serve to attract smaller examples when it is not available 

 during the winter months. Unless specially treated, the laiger specimens 

 are almost worthless as food, being very tough and of unpleasant flavour, 

 but smaller examples are quite as tasty as the Blackfishes of the related 

 family Girellidse. Mr. McNeill has observed the species commonly off 

 the coast near Sydne\', and of all sizes between four inches and two feet 

 in length. 



Locs. — Four specimens are preserved in the Anstjalian Museum from 

 near S^'dney, and one has been recently received from Mr. Edgar R. 

 Waite which was taken in South Australian waters. The species has 

 been recorded from Western Australia, South Australia, New South 

 Wales, and New Zealand. 



Kyphosus cineuascbns, Forskal. 



Pimeleptertis cinerasceus (Forskal), Day, Fish. India, 1875, p. 143, pi. 

 XXXV., 6g. 3. Id., Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., ix., 1876, p. 15, pi. ccclxiv., 

 fig. 4. Id., Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xviii., 1886, p. 368. 



Fachymetopo)h squamosum, Alleyne& Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 

 i., 1877, p. 275, pi. ix., fig. 1. Id., Macleay, Loc. cit., v., 1881, p. 407, 

 and vii., 1887, p. 246, and ix., p. 16. 



Scorpis vinosa, Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1877, 

 p. 277, pi. ix., fig. 2. Id., Macleay, Loc. cit., v., 1881, 398. Id., 

 Vaillant, Bull. Mas. Hist. Nat., iii., 1897, pp. 85-87. 



Kyphosus cinernscens, Cockerell, Mem. Qld. Mus., ii., 1913, p. 57. Id.. 

 Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., ii., 1913, p. 90. Id., McCulloch, Rec, 

 Austr. Mus., xi. 7, 1917, p. 181. 



A fine specimen of this species 365 mm. long, was secured on St. 

 Crispin Reef on the outer edge of the great Barrier Reef, of¥ Port Douglas, 

 in June, 1918. It was feeding with several otheis on the reef at low 

 tide, in water about 12 inches deep, and was speared by a native 

 fisherman, who called it a Bream. It was a light silvery blue in colour, 

 with two vertical bands posteriorly, the first between the anterior 

 portions of the dorsal and anal, and the second between the posterior 

 insertions of those fins. 



A second specimen in the Australian Museum, 267 mm. long, from 

 Port Moresby, was identified by Macleay as Pachnmetopon squamosum, 

 which species has already been recognised as synonymous with K. 

 cinernscens. It agrees with the larger specimen in all details, and both 

 agree Avith Bleeker's description and figure of the species. 



Kyphosus gibsoni, Ogilby. 



(Plate xii., fig. 3). 



Kyphosus gibsoni, Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., i., 1912, p. 50. 



D. xi/13 ; A. iii/12 ; P. 19; V. i/5 ; C. 15. 59 pierced scales on the 

 lateral line, of which 6 are behind the hypnral joint. About 75 rows of 



