FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 155 



Locs. — Nine specimens, 155-330 mm. long, were preserved 

 from the following localities : — 



East of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 65-75 fathoms. 



Fifty miles south of Cai>e Wiles, South Australia, 75 fathoms. 



Great Australian Bight, west of the meridian of Eucla, 

 70-120 fathoms. 



Neosebastes incisipinnis, Ogilby. 

 (Plate xxix.) 



Neosebastes incisipinnis, Ogilby, New Fish. Q'ld. Coast, 

 1911. p. 104. 



D. xii. i. 8 ; A. iii. 5 ; P. 20-21 ; V. i. 5 ; C. 15. L.lat. 33. 

 Length of head from premaxillary symphysis to end of oper- 

 cular lobe, 2-2 in the length to the hyjiural ; depth 2-8 in the 

 same. Eye 2-8 in the head. Interorbital space about half 

 as wide as the eye, and less than the length of the snout, which 

 is 1-4 in the eye. Least depth of caudal peduncle a little less 

 than the length of the snout. Third dorsal spine 1-9, second 

 dorsal ray 2-4, and longest pectoral ray 1-7 in the head. 

 Second anal spine 2-7, second anal ray 2-05, and second ventral 

 ray 1-7 in the head. 



Interorbital space deeply concave, with two more or less 

 distinct ridges which diverge backwards. No occipital 

 groove. MaxiUary reaching to below the middle of the eye 

 or not quite so far backward. Preorbital armed with nume- 

 rous strong spines on its margin, and one or two smaller ones 

 on its upper surface. Sub-orbital stay with two groups of 

 spines. Preopercular margin broadly rounded, with one long, 

 carinate spine directed l)ackward, and three others on the 

 lower border. Operculum with two strong flat spines, the 

 lower carinate. A "small spine above the anterior nostril. 

 Upper anterior margin of the eye with, a stout spinule, the 

 posterior portion with a ridge which is divided into five or six 

 spines. A low nuchal ridge ending in a spine on either side, 

 and several other spines are present above the suspension of 

 the opercles. All the upper portions and sides of the head 

 covered with rough scales, leaving onty the lips and lower jaw 

 naked. Jaws of equal length, the lower with a symphyseal 

 knob, on either side of which is a jiore ; tlu'ee other pores are 

 present on each ramus of the mandible. Anterior nostril with 

 a small tentacle. 



Teeth villiform. forming bands in the jaAvs which are 

 broader on the premaxillaries than on the mandible. A 

 V-shaped band on the vomer, and an elongate one on each 

 palatine bone. 



Back but little elevated, almost straight. Caudal peduncle 

 slender. Body covered with rather large, ctenoid scales. 



