136 " ENDEAVOUR " BCrBNTIPIC RESULTS. 



vomer and palatines. Tongue broad, spatulate, its end truncate 

 or slightly emarginate. Gill-rakers slender, 2.3 in the eye ; 

 fourteen on the lower limb of the first arch. 



Body covered with small ctenoid scales, which extend forward 

 to the occiput above, and onto the operculum and postorbital 

 portion of the preoperculum. The lateral line is raised but not 

 spiniferous ; it extends along the middle of the body and onto the 

 caudal rays, and pierces 90-99 scales between the operculum and 

 the hypural. The rows of scales are rather more numerous 

 there being about 133 between the occiput and the hypural. 



First dorsal spine small and isolated ; the second is the 

 longest and strongest, and is grooved on either side. First ray 

 of second dorsal placed somewhat nearer the hypural than the 

 tip of the snout ; the sixth to the twelfth are widely spaced and 

 joined by membrane only at the base. Anal originating before 

 and terminating behind the dorsal. Upper pectoral ray 2.7, 

 fourth ventral ray about 2 in the head. Ventral spine strong and 

 grooved and placed below the middle of the pectorals. Caudal 

 slightly forked, the upper lobe much the larger and longer, 

 usually with a filament which may be longer than the rest of the 

 fin. 



Colourless in formalin ; some indefinite markings above the 

 lateral line, and a subdermal row of large dark longitudinal spots 

 directly below it. Head with clusters of minute grey dots 

 forming indefinite spots. Dorsal and caudal fins with blackish 

 spots, the latter also with a large blotch on the lower lobe. 



Length of largest specimen, from tip of lower jaw to end of 

 middle caudal rays, 185 mm. 



Professor J. 0. Snyder has very kindly compared three of the 

 Pine Peak specimens, which were obtained with the types of 

 Hyalorhynchus pellucidus, Ogilby, with a co-type of Elates 

 thompsoni, Jordan & Scale. He writes that he " finds them to 

 belong to the same species, no important differences appearing." 



Locs. — Seventy-five specimens were preserved from the 

 following localities : — 



Pine Peak, Queensland, S.59°E. ; August, 1910. 



Twelve miles north-east of Bowen, Queensland, 19-25 fathoms ; 

 August, 1910. 



