100 "endeavour" SCIENTIFIC results. 



several figures of II, mediterraneus, also, the proportions of the 

 body are shown to differ considerably, which suggests that more 

 than one species is confused under that name. I have therefore 

 figured a Southern Australian example, 129 mm. long, which 

 may be regarded as a variety of the European form until repre- 

 sentative specimens of the two can be compared. 



Locs. — Nine specimens are in the collection from the following 

 localities. — 



Great Australian Bight, Long. 126°45'E., 190-320 fathoms; 

 4th April, 1913. 



Great Australian Bight, Long, 126-127°E., Lat. 33°20'S., 

 80-li,0 fathoms ; March, 1912. 



HOPLOSTETHUS INTERMEDIUS, Hector. 



(Fig. 6.) 



Trachichthys intermedins Hector, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., vii,, 

 1875, p. 245, pi. xi. Id., Gunther, " Challenger " Rept., 

 Zool., xxii., 1887, p. 24, pi. v., fig. D, Id., McChilloch, 

 Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1907, p. 349. 



D.vi./13; A.iii./lO; V.1./6; P. 15-16; C.vi /21/v-vi. L. Lat. 

 28-29. Abdominal scutes 9-13. Depth of body at origin of 

 dorsal 2.11-2.27 in the length from the snout to the hypural ; 

 head, to the opercular spine, 2.64-2.8 in the same. Eye 2.61-3.11, 

 orbit 2.5-2.57 in the head. Interorbital space 1-1.31, snout 

 1.61-1.63 in the eye. Breadth of the maxillary 1.5-1.61, and 

 longest gill-raker 1.38-1.75 in the eye. Sixth dorsal spine 

 2.5-2.66, longest ray 1.71-1.75, and third anal spine 3.11-3 5 in 

 the head. Base of anal fin 1.67-1.77 in that of the dorsal. 



The foregoing are the proportions of six specimens, 102-173 

 mm. long from the snout to the end of the middle caudal rays. 

 There are twenty two others in the collection, all taken together 

 in the one haul, which do not exhibit any variation in their 

 characters. They are easily distinguished by their more elongate 

 form from the others which I have identified as a variety of 

 H. mediterraneus ; they also have always ten instead of nine anal 

 rays, counting the last double one as one in both cases, and the 

 length of the base of the anal is more than half that of the 

 dorsal. 



Mi\ C. Tate Regan has very kindly compared one of the 

 "Endeavour" specimens with the example in the British 

 Museum which was described and figured by Guuther and he 

 informs me they are referable to the same species. Gunther 



