FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. Ill 



family BERYCID^. 



Genus Bbryx, Cuvier. 



Beryx splendens, Lowe. 



Beryx splendens, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1833, p. 142, and 

 Fish. Madeira, 184S-1860, p. 47, pi. viii. Id., Goode 

 and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p. 176, pi. liii., fig- 

 197 (references). 



A young example, eight inches long from the tip of the 

 snout to the end of the middle caudal rays, does not appear 

 to differ from the descriptions and figures quoted above. 

 The longer body and fewer dorsal rays readily separate it 

 from B. decadactylus, Lowe. 



Loc. — Thirty miles south-west of Gabo Island, Victoria, 

 240 fathoms ; 12th September, 1914. 



Beryx decadactylus, Lowe. 



Beryx decadactylus (Lowe), McCulloch, Biol. Res. " Endea- 

 vour," ii., pt. 3, 1914, p. 96. 



Two examples, 253 and 295 mm. long to the end of the 

 middle caudal rays, are some\\'hat smaller than those pre- 

 viously recorded from Australian waters. 



Locs. — South of Cape Everard, Victoria, 180-200 fathoms ; 

 7th June, 1914. 



Thirty miles S.S.E. of Gabo Island, Victoria, 238 fathoms ; 

 2nd October, 1914. 



Family ANTIGONITD.^. 



Genus Antigonia, I^owe. 



Antigonia rhomboidea, sp. nov. 



(Plate xviii., fig. 1.) 



D. ix. 29 ; A. iii. 28 ; V. i. 5 ; P. 1 + 12 ; C 12. Depth 

 from the first dorsal spine to that of the ventral 0-03 greater 

 than the length from the snout to the hypural ; head 2-6 in 

 the same length. Eye 2.7 in the head, longer than the snout, 

 Mhich is 3-1 in the same. Interorbital space 3-9, caudal 

 peduncle 2-7 in the head. Pectoral 1-1, ventral spine 1-4, 

 and first anal spine 2-3 in the head. 



