FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 109 



detail with the " Endeavour " specimens except that it is very 

 much shorter aud deeper than normal specimens ; the greatest 

 depth is 2.45 in the length from the snout to the hypural. Tt 

 was ahtained at Murray Island, Torres Strait. 



I have compared the specimens of P. setosus and P. paradiseus 

 recorded by Macleay from Port Jackson and Cape Sidmonth, 

 with those of the " Endeavour " collection, and find no differences 

 between them. If the Port Jackson example be properly 

 localised, it must be regarded as a chance visitor to this harbour 

 since the species is ordinarily confined to Queensland waters on 

 the eastern Australian Coast. Other specimens are in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum from Moreton Bay and Dunk Island, Queensland, 

 and I have examined one in the collection of the Western 

 Australian Museum from Port Hedland, North Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



Locs. — The " Endeavour " specimens were caught on Rock-cod 

 Shoal, eleven miles south-west from Masthead Island of the 

 Capricorn Group, Queensland, and in the Great Sandy Strait, 

 off Point Inskip, 10-12 fathoms, 27th July, 1910. 



Family CEPOLID^. 

 Genus Cepola, Linnams. 

 Cepola australis, Ogilby. 



(Plate xxxiv., fig. 1.) 



Cepola australis, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxiv., 

 1899, p. 185. 



I have compared four specimens of this species with four 

 others of G. tcenia, Linnaeus, and one of C. aotea, Waite, and find 

 that they differ as follows. 



a. Lower jaw without an anterior supplementary band of 



teeth taenia. 



an. Lower jaw with an anterior supplementary band of teeth. 



b. D. 70-74; A. 65-69 aotea. 



bb. D. 57-60; A. 48-55 australis. 



It must be noted that all my four specimens of C. australis 

 have an inter-maxillary dark spot, though it is much larger and 

 more conspicuous in some than in others ; it was wanting in the 

 type specimen. Some specimens, also, have very much longer 

 bodies than the others, the head being from 7z-9% in the length 

 to the hypural. 



