78 "endeavour" scientific rkbucts. 



large commercial trawl into 450 fathoms and several lesser 

 depths in the Great Australian Bight, and, as might he expected, 

 lias captured a wonderfully rich collection of new or little known 

 fishes. Many of these are generically and even specifically 

 identical with the species known from similar depths in other 

 parts of the world, though they have not been previously 

 recognised from Australian waters, and they give some idea of 

 the large number of species which will have to be added to the 

 Australian list when this section of our fauna is better known. 



It may be mentioned here that such of these deep-sea fishes as 

 have been examined bear a marked resemblance to those 

 described from Japan, Hawaii, and the Indian Ocean, while a 

 few are apparently identical with species occurring in the 

 Mediterranean and the neighbouring Atlantic Ocean, Some of 

 them are also known to occur in shallow water in New Zealand 

 where so many deep sea types are occasionally cast up on the 

 beaches. 



The following are dealt with in this Report: — 



Oxynotus bruniensis, Ogilby ; Southern Australia. Near 

 0. eentrina, Linnaeus ; Mediterranean and neighbouring 

 Atlantic. 



Scymnorhinus licha, Bonnaterre ; Mediterranean and neigh- 

 bouring Atlantic, Japan, New Zealand and Southern 

 Australia. 



Sonatina tergocellata, sp. nov.; Southern Australia, Near 

 8. africana, Regan ; Natal. 



Polyipmis tridentifer, sp. nov.; Southern Australia. Near 

 P. spinosus, Giinther; Indian and Western Pacific 

 Oceans. 



Neoscopehts macrolepidotus, Johnson; Atlantic, Indian, and 

 Pacific Oceans, New Zealand and Southern Australia. 



( 'entriscops humerosus, Richardson; Southern Australia and 

 Now Zealand. 



Notopogon lilliei, Regan ; Southern Australia and New 

 Zealand. 



Hyperoglyphe johnstonii, Morton; Southern Australia and 

 New Zealand. 



Jienjj' decadactylus, Cnvier & Valenciennes ; Madeira, Japan, 

 and Southern Australia. 



Hoplostethus intermedins, Giiuther ; Southern Pacific and 

 Southern Australia. 



