FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 14i9 



Tasmania by Kenti it may be noted that Johnston failed 

 to find it there. 2 



I follow Johnston {Loc. cit.) in uniting L. hilineata and 

 L. inornata, Castelnan. with L. forsteri, while L. ramsayi, 

 Ogilby, is probably only a variety of L. forsteri, as suggested 

 by its author in 1886. 



The specimen described by Kent as Latris tnortoni^ is 

 evidently related to, and possibly identical with, L. lineata, 

 Forster, rather than Latridopsis forsteri. Judging by the 

 description, it has most of the structural details of the 

 former, though it resembles both species in its colour- 

 marking. Kent noted that it was possibly a hybrid between 

 th? two, but the presence of vomerine teeth indicates its 

 affijiity to Latris lineata. 



Loc. — N.X.E. of Sisters Islands, Bass Strait, 70-80 fathoms ; 

 20th April, 19U. 



Family CALLIONY^IID^. 



Genus Dactylopus, Gill. 



Dactylopus dactylopus, Cuvier <fc Valenciennes. 

 (Plate xxviii.) 

 Dactylopus dactylopiis (Cuvier & Valenciennes), Ogilby, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii., 1910, p. 46. 



The collection includes three specimens, 94-156 mm. long, 

 of which two are females, and one is a male. Another female 

 is in the Australian Museum. 



The three females are very similar, and have the general 

 colour marking shown in the accompanying figure. The 

 male, which is the largest specimen, differs in having the 

 anterior dorsal spines much longer and largety free from the 

 membrane ; the first extends back almost to the end of the 

 last dorsal ray when both are adpressed. The caudal fin is 

 also longer and more angular, the median rays being 2J in the 

 length to the hypural, instead of nearly 3. Both dorsal fins 

 and the caudal are more elaborately marked than in the 

 females, being ornamented with many irregular ocelli, while 

 the tail also bears nu^merous oblique bars on its upper half. 



Locs. — The specimen figured is a female, 107 mm. long, 

 from Shark Bay, Western Australia. The three " Endeavour " 

 specimens were trawled off Hervey Bay, Queensland, 9-11 

 fathoms ; 27th July, 1910. 



L Kent — Rept. Fish. Dept. Tasmania, 1886, p. 13 (see Journals and 

 Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania, viii., 1886, No. 37). 

 2. Johnston— Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1882 (1883), p. 72. 



