156 "endeavour" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS! 



tlif '■ Endeavour " specimens with his type, and has verified my 

 identification; lie further adds that he has overlooked the 

 palatine teeth, which are also present in the type. 



hoc. — Investigator Strait. South Australia, 12-20 fathoms; 

 February. 1912.' 



Parapercis (Chilias) nebulosus, Qnoy fy Gaimard. 



Percis nebulosa, Qnoy A' Gaimard, Voy. " Uranie," 1825, 

 ,.. 349. hi, (iunther. Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., 1860, p. 237. 

 /./. Castelnau, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S. Wales, iii., 1879, 

 p. 351. /'/., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v.. 

 1881. p. 563. 



Pern's emeryana, Richardson, [cones Piscium, 1£4:>, p. 4. 

 pi. i., fig. 1. 



Y'erci* coxii, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, viii., 1883, 

 p. 179. 



Percis concirina, de Vis. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, i\\. 

 3884, p. 546. 



Parapercis nebulosus, Waite, Mem. Anstr. Mus., iv.. pt. i.. 

 L899, p. iii., and Ree. Austr. Mus.. vi.. 1905, p. 7-">. hi. 

 Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii.. 1910; p. 40. 



Fifteen specimens, 170-270 mm. long, agree with Richardson's 

 figure of P. emeryana and the type of P. coxii, Hamsay. They 

 vary somewhat in col our- marking and in the development of the 

 caudal filaments. The greater number are without any cross- 

 bands on the body, which may be due to their preservation in 

 formalin. In the smallest specimen the caudal is slightly 

 emarginate with the outer angles pointed, but in older ones the 

 outer rays become produced as filaments which are two thirds as 

 long as the head in the largest examples. None have palatine 

 teeth, ami the median spines of the Hist dorsal are longest in all. 



Locs. — Off Bustard Head Lighthouse, Queensland, 11-21 

 fathoms : 8th July, 1910. 



Five miles South-west of Boomerang Hill, Frazer Island. 

 14-16 fathoms; 29th June, 1910. 



Twenty two miles North-west of Double Island Point. Queens- 

 land, 29 fathoms; 29th June, 1910. 



Mouth of Wide Bay, Queensland. 



