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Siigmafophora argits Klunzinger, Sitzber. Akad. Wien I-XXX. 1879, p. 42O. 

 SligDiatopliora olivacea Maclcay, Descript. Cat. Australian Fishes II. 188 1, (separ. 



edit.) p. 234. 

 Stigmatophora unicolor Macleay, ibid. p. 234. 

 Stigmatophora depressiuscula Macleay, ibid. p. 235. 

 Stigmatophora gracilis Macleay, ibid. p. 235. 



Stigmatophora argus Johnston, Proc. Roy, Soc. Tasmania, 1882, p. 134. 

 Stigmatophora argus Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria (2) II. 1890, p. 39. 

 Stigmatophora argus var. brevicaudatus Lucas, I.e. III. 189 1, p. 14. 

 Stigmatophora argus Duncker, in Fauna Siidwest Australiens II. Pisces, 1909, 



p. 239. — Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXXII. 191 5, p. 103. 

 Stigmatopora argus McCuUoch, Check-list of the Fish of N. S. Wales, 1919, p. 27. 

 Stigmatophora argus Waite & Hale, Rec. South Austral. Mus. I, 1921, p. 308. 



D. 43 — 55; A. 2— 4; P. 14 — 17; Rings 17 — 20+73 — 89 [when 

 complete]; subdorsal rings 7 — 10+8 — 12. 



Head 5'/.^ — 6 times in length. Snout equal to or somewhat 

 shorter than remaining part of head ; it has a median ridge. 

 Eye about 12 times in head. Operculum with a feeble longi- 

 tudinal keel in young specimens, disappearing in old. Trunk 

 more than twice but less than thrice shorter than tail. Shields 

 corrugated. Median cristae of trunk ending behind dorsal on 

 the iQth to 14th tail-ring. Brown or grajash above, lighter 

 below; female on each side with a dorsal series and four more or 

 less alternating series of black white-edged ocelli on trunk and 

 anterior part of tail ; male dorsally with a double series of 

 ocelli, the other ones faint or wanting. Length 205 mm. [Only 

 an old, much mutilated specimen in the Leiden Museum 

 seen by us]. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Dumeril, GiJNTHER, Bleeker). — 

 Coasts of Australia and Tasmania. 



17. Trachy rhamphus Kaup. 



(Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish, 1856, p. 23). 



Much elongated ; trunk heptagonal ; tail tetragonal, much 

 longer than tnmk. Shields transversely rugose, their edges 

 .smooth, not much prominent; intermedial shields (scutella) oval; 

 a praenuchal and two nuchal shields present. Superior and 

 inferior cristae of trunk and tail discontinuous; median cristae 

 of trunk and inferior cristae of tail continuous. Head with 

 the eyes and front prominent, forming an angle with the snout, 

 which has a serrated keel. Operculum with a basal convex 

 keel directed upwards and with fine radiating lines. All the 

 fins developed, caudal small; dorsal on an elevated base inserted 



