FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 158 



The ,: Endeavour " collection includes five specimens, 175-325 

 mm. long, while a co-type of P. andertoni from the Bay of 

 of Plenty, New Zealand, is in the Australian Museum. They 

 differ from Giinther's figure only in being less spotted, though 

 the New Zealand specimen is better marked than the Australian 

 ones. The inner surfaces of the pectoral fins are either unifoiun 

 black with broad white margins, or more or less spotted with 

 white ; the ventrals, anal and caudal fins are without markings 

 or have indefinite traces of darker spots. Two of my specimens 

 have eight instead of seven dorsal spines, and all have twelve 

 rays instead of eleven as in Giinther's specimen. 



Apart from its colour marking, P. picta, is very similar to 

 P . polyommata, Richardson, but has much larger bony-plates 

 surrounding the dorsal spine, and a broader interorbital space. 



Locs. — 25 miles South-west of Cape Everard, Victoria, 83-98 

 fathoms; 21st April, 1910. 



Eastern edge of Bass Strait, between Babel Island and Gabo 

 Island, Victoria, 60-100 and 100-220 fathoms ; December, 1912. 



Pterygotrigla polyommata, Richardson. 



Pterygotrigla polyommata (Richardson), Waite, Mem. Austr. 

 Mus., iv., pt, 1, 1899, p. 108. 



Lot's;. — Four specimens were preserved from the following 

 localities : — 



Eastern edge of Bass Strait, between Babel Island and Gabo 

 Island, Victoria, 60-100 fathoms; December, 1912. 



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



Oyster Bay, Tasmania, 40-60 fathoms. 



Family PINGUIPEDID^E. 



Genus Paraperpis, Bleeker. 



Percis, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 179 

 (P. maculata, Bl. & Schn. Preoccupied). 



Parapercis, Bleeker. Versl. K. Akad. Amst., xvi., 1864, p. 361 

 (Sciama cylindrica, Bloch, — fide Weber, " Siboga '" 

 Exped., lvii., 1913, p, 518). 



Neopercis, Steindachuer, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien., xlix., 

 1884, p. 212 (V. ramsayi, Steindachner). 



Chilias, Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii., 191U, p. 40 

 {Percis stricticeps, de Vis). 



