FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 163 



board the Endeavour and subsequently 



forwarded to the Australian Museum" without any label 

 accompanying it. Ogilby gave the length as 196 mm., but this 

 measurement includes the lower jaw when the mouth is wide 

 open. His description is unintelligible in parts and misleading 

 in others, errors which are doubtless the result of its absurdly 

 hurried preparation and publication. 



There is considerable doubt as to whether this species is 

 correctly placed in Ohirolophius. Though the gill-opening 

 extends forward to above the base of the pectoral, it does not 

 leave a free border to the opercular membrane as in other 

 species of the genus. The pectorals, also, have twenty-three 

 rays instead of thirteen to eighteen. It may be either a 

 Lophius, Linnams or Lophiomus, (rill, but its position must 

 remain unsettled until another specimen can be secured of which 

 the vertebra? can be counted. 



Luc— Thirty-six miles N. 12°E. of Cape Moreton, Queens- 

 land, in 73 fathoms; 3i*d September, 1910. 



Family OGCOCEPHALIDvE. 



Greuus Hai.ikht.-ka, Guvier 8f Valenciennes. 



Halieutjea brevicadda, Ogilby. 



(Plate xxxiii.) 



Halieutoea brevicauda, Ogilby, New Pish, Q'ld. Coast, 1911, 

 p. 138. 



D. 4; A. 4; P. 14; V. 5 ; C. 9. Length of disk, from the 

 end of the snout to the level of its junction with the pectoral 

 fins, 1.4 in the total length (from the snout to the hypural) ; its 

 breadth is greater than its length, and 1.23 in the total length. 

 Tail, from the vent to the hypural, 3.11 in the total length; 

 its greatest breadth is 2.08 in its own length. Length of head, 

 from the snout to the gill opening, 1.61 in the total length. 

 Interorbital space a little less than the length of the eye. which 

 is 6.5 in the head. Width of month, including the tips of the 

 maxillary bones, 1.73 in the head. Depth of the body, at the 

 ventrals, 3.25 in the head, and equal to twice the diameter of the 

 eye. Depth of caudal peduncle half the length of the eye. 

 Longest pectoral ray 2.47, fifth ventral ray 3.71, and caudal tin 

 2.26 in the head. Second dorsal ray 3, and second anal ray 1.90 

 in the longest pectoral ray. 



Upper surface of the cephalic disk closely covered with small 

 spines which are of unequal size ; the larger ones have about 

 tour ridges radiating from their bases. Three strong, curved 



