106 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Logs. — Specimens of C. cristatus are in the Australian 

 Museum from Cooktown, Queensland, and Houtman Abrol- 

 hos, Western Australia ; they include one of the specimens 

 recorded by Waite as C. scufatus from the latter locality. 

 The " Endeavour " trawled numerous examples at the fol- 

 lowing stations : — 



Platypus Ba3^ Queensland, 5-9 fathoms ; 20th July, 1910. 



Three to seven miles off Hervey Bay, Queensland, 9-11 

 fathoms ; 27th July, 1910. 



Fourteen miles S. 52° E. of Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 

 12-13 fathoms ; 29th July, 1910. 



Seven miles N. 70° E. of Hummocky Island, Queensland, 

 14-16 fathoms ; 30th July, 1910. 



Family PEGASID^. 



Genus Acanthopeoasus, geti. nov. 



Near Parapegasus, Dumeril, but cliifering in the structure 

 of the ventral fins. These are composed of one spine and 

 three rays, each of which is clearly divided into two halves 

 in its basal portion ; the spine overlies, and is in close con- 

 tact with the first ray. The body is more rugose and spiny 

 than Parapegasus, but similarly constructed. 



Type. — Pegasus lancijer, Kaup. 



ACANTHOPEGASUS LANCIFER, Kaup. 



(Fig. 1.) 



Pegasus nutans, Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Brit. Mus., 1856, 

 p. 4 (part), pi. i., fig. 2 (not P. natans, Linnaeus). 



Pegasus lancijer, Kaup, Arch, fiir Naturgesch., xxii. i., 

 1861, pp. 116-117. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 Fish., viii., 1870, p. 149. Id., Castelnau, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Vict., ii., 1873, p. 57. Id., Macleav, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, N.S.Wales, vi., 1881, p. 286. Id., Johnston, 

 Proc. Rov. Soc. Tasm., 1882 (1883), p. 134, and 1890 

 (1891), p^ 37. Id., Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (2), 

 ii., 1890, p. 38. Id., Zietz, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 

 xxxiii., 1909, p. 263. 



Parapegasus lancijer, Dumei'il, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii., 1870, 

 p. 494. 



