302 MEMOITiS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Island Point. They were, according to his statement, when caught, enclosed 

 in the eviscerated remains of a holothurian, and were 'very vicious " when 

 shaken out on the deck. This species differs altogether in shape from F. homei, 

 the great curvature of the dorsal profile rendering it much deeper than that 

 fish. Reg. Xo. I. 3444-5. 



TATHICARPUS APPELI sp. nov. 

 (Plate XIX, Fig. 2.) 

 Scribbled Angler. 

 TyjJe locality. — Wide Bay. South Queensland. 



Depth of body 1-75 in its length. Caudal peduncle two-sevenths deeper 

 than long, its depth 2-7 in the length of the head. Upper profile from the 

 tip of the snout to the origin of the second dorsal gently rounded, but with a 

 slight notch in front of the occipital spine. Width of the head slightly more 

 than half its length, which is 1-8 in that of the body. Snout 5-33 in the length 

 of the head and 2-25 in that of the maxillary. Diameter of eye equal to the 

 length of the snout; interorbital width 1-2 in the eye-diameter. Maxillary 

 extending to below the middle of the eye, its length 2-37 in that of the head, 

 the width of its rounded distal extremity one half of the eye-diameter. Mental 

 tubercle .small. 



Cutaneous appendages in small number, simple, longest on the chin, 

 throat, and corner of the mouth. 



. . Rostral spine and filament extending to the fourth dorsal ray, its length 

 subequal to that of the head ; frontal spine curved, its length 2-67 in that of 

 the rostral, extending slightly beyond the origin of the occipital spine, its membrane 

 reaching midway ; occipital spine similar to but one-third longer than the 

 frontal, bearing anteriorly a pair of long median filaments and subterminally a 

 similar pair, one of which is posterior, its length rather less than half of the 

 head, extending when depressed to third ray of the second dorsal, its membrane 

 reaching about midway along the interdorsal space. Second dorsal with eleven rays, 

 originating above the base of the pseudobrachium, its length subequal to its 

 distance from the tip of the snout and 1-28 in the length of the head ; outer 

 border strongly convex, the fifth and sixth rays longest, 1-3 in the basal length; 

 the depressed rays reach to the base of the caudal. Length of caudal fin 

 2-33 in that of the body. Anal fin with 7 rays, originating below the seventh 

 dorsal ray, with sharply rounded outUne, the third and fourth rays equal and 

 longest, slightly less than the highest dorsal ray, rather more than twice the 

 basal length, and extending well beyond the base of the caudal. Pectoral fin 

 with seven rays, reaching slightly beyond the end of the anal-base, its length 

 1-95 in that of the body. Third ventral ray the longest, 2-4 in the length of 

 the head. 



