122 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vi„ 1881, 

 p. 128. Id., Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1882 

 (1883), p. 127, and 1890 (1891), p. 36. Id., Waite, 

 Mom. Austr. Mus., iv., 1899, p. 123. Id., Stead, Ed. 

 Fish. N.S. Wales, 1908, p. 103, pi. lxx. 



Amniotretis rostratus vel adspersus, Kner, Heise " Novara," 

 Zool., i., 1868, p. 286, pi. xiii., fig. 4. hi, Oo-ilby, Cat. 

 Fish. N.S. Wales, 1886, p. 48, 



Rhombosolea bassensis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet., i., 

 1872, p. 167. Id., Macleay, Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 vi., 1881, p. 132. Id,, Lncas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (2), 

 ii., p. 34. 



dmmotretis zonatus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 vii., 1882, p. 367, and ix., 1884, p. 50. 



Amniotretis macleayi, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, x., 

 1885, p. 121-2*. 



Peltorhamplnis bassensis, Waite, Rec. Anstr. Mus., vi., 1906. 

 p. 198, pi. xxxiv. 



Having carefully compai'ed and counted the fin rays and 

 scales of fourteen examples of this variable species, 135-325 mm. 

 long, I find they have the following characters. 1J. 76-86 ; 

 A. 51-56 ; P. 9-12 ; V. dex. 7 ; V. sin. 3-6 ; L. lat. 80-90 ; L. tr. 

 34-38 -f 46-50. Depth l-fr-l?, head 3|-4i in the length from the 

 upper jaw to the hypural. Scales of upper side ctenoid. 

 Maxillary not reaching the level of the orbital margin. Origin 

 of the lateral line more or less below the level of the upper margin 

 of the upper eye Gill-rakers of the first arch of the lower side 

 large, tubercular. Colour ranging from blackish to light brown 

 with darker dots ; upper pectoral more or less blackish. 



T have re-examined the specimen figured in Waite's paper, 

 and find that I have drawn the scales too large, there being only 

 68 along the lateral line whereas there should be 80. The 

 nostrils are shown as if connected which is incorrect, while 

 the fourteenth to eighteenth rays are not longer than those 

 immediately following them ; they are really similar to what 1 

 have shown in my figure of A. tudori. 



jr ocs . — A. rostratus is recorded from Tasmania, Victoria, and 

 New South Wales northwards to Port Jackson. The 

 ""Endeavour " also trawled it in South Australian waters : — 



Off the East coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 40 fathoms. 



Off the mouth of the Murray River, South Australia, 20 

 fathoms. 



