QUEENSLAND FISHES.— McCULLOCH. 177 



operculum and pectoral fins. It is clearly related to Liocraniuni prcepositum 

 Ogilby. Paracentropogon cynocephalus "Weber^ is perhaps only the young of 

 L. Scorpio. 



Localities. — Fourteen miles S.E. of Cape Capricorn, Queensland; 13 

 fathoms. ''EndeaA^our" collection, holotype. 



Near Bowen, Queensland. ' ' Endeavoiu' " ' collection, paratype. 



Capricorn Group, Queensland ; 25-30 fathoms. Queensland State trawler. 



Genus SEBASTOPSIS Gill. 



SEBASTOPSIS GUAMENSIS Quoy and Gaimard. 

 Sehastopsis guamensis Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv, 1905, p. 374. Id, 



McCuUoch, Ree. Austr. Mus. ix. 3, 1913, p 388. 

 Sebastopsis scabra Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish Bureau, xxv, 1905, p. 374, fig. 71. (Not 



Sebastes scaber Ramsay & Ogilby.) 

 Centropogon echinalus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v, 3, 1881, p. 436. Id. Ogilby, Proc. 



Roy. Soc. Qld. xviii, 1903, pp. 8, 9. 



An examination of the type of Centropogon echinatns in the Macleay 

 Museum proves it to be specifically identical with Sebastopsis guamensis. Its 

 identity was suggested to me by Mr. J. Douglas Ogilby in 1916, but, as he does 

 not appear to have recorded the synonymy, I take this opportunity of doing so. 



Locality. — Endeavour River Estuary, North Queensland. 

 Gentjs EROSA Swainson. 



EROSA EROSA (Langsdorf) Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



(Plate XI, fig. 2.) 



Erosa erosa Jordan & Starks, Proc. U.S. Na . Ma^., xxvii, 1904, p. 155, fig. 16. Id. McCulloch, 



Rec. Austr. Mus. xii, 8, 1919, p. 177. 

 Erosa iridea Ogilby, New Fish. Qld Coast, 1910, p. 113. 



Br. 6 ; D. xiv/7 ; A. iii/6 ; V. i/4 ; P. 15 ; C. 14. Depth at the origin of the 

 dorsal fin 2-1 in the length to the hypural joint. Width of the head between the 

 bony bosses of the cheeks almost as great as its length, which is 2-2 in the length 

 to the hypural joint. Eye shorter than its distance from the premaxillary 

 symphysis, and equal to about half the interorbital width. Third dorsal spine 

 3-2 in the head and as long as the last, which is considerably shorter than the rays. 



Head with bony structur&s arranged as in the figure ; the nape is hollowed 

 out into a large quadrangular depression which is widest posteriorly, and is 

 bounded anteriorly by an interorbital bridge. Maxilla broad and reaching 

 backward to below the posterior third of the eye. A band of villiform teeth 

 on each jaw, and a patch on the vomer; palatines toothless. Gill-membranes 

 broadly united with the isthmus. 



iWeber, Siboga Rept., Pisces, Ivii, 1913, p. 500, fig. 103. 

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