234 RECORDS OF THE Al'STHAMAN MDSEDM. 



Distribitlioii. — This species ranges fr<im the Red Sea and tlie Kastern 

 Coast of Africa to Japan, Australia, and tlie KiiKteni Pacific Ocean. 



If (1. gofiunilor be correctly identilied with it, as seems probable, its 

 i-auge also extends to both coasts of America. 



Mapo kuekftii, Steindachuer. 

 (Plate xxxiii., lig. 4.) 



(iuliius Lrcjj'tii, Steindacliner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien., liii. i., 18G6, 



p. 451. 

 floblus rriuifjer, Steindacliner, Lot-, cit., Ivi. i., 18G7, p. '.V26 (not of Cavier 



and Valenciennes). 

 (fOhiiis hrevijilia, Giinther, " Challenger" liept., Zool., i., 1880, p. 28. /</., 



Ogilby, Cat. Fisli. N.S.Wales, 18S(), p. :{5. Id., Waite, Mem. 



N.S.Wales Nat. Club, ii., 1904, p. 45 (not (/. hrevijUh, Day). 

 dohina hHcrtifii><, Macleay, Ihlil., p. 601. Id., Ogilby, 7///./. 7(/., Waite, 



Ihid (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Gohius Ihtridus, Macleav, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 602. 



Id', Ogilby, Ihid. 'id., Waite, Ihid. 



D. vi/11; A. 10; P. lG-17 ; V. i/5 ; C. 14. 86-87 rows (.f scales 

 between the nppei' Iwise (tf the pectoral and the liypiirul joint, and 1:)-14 

 between the anterior dorsal and anal rays. 



Depth 48 in the length to the hypui-al joint ; head 8-4 in the .'<ame. 

 Breadth between the bases of the ])ectorals 105 in the depth. Kye slightly 

 shoiter than the snout, 4-1 in tlie head. Interoculai- space 6 in the eye. 

 |)e])th of the caudal jx'duncle 23, and the caudal tin I'l in the head. 

 First doisal spine 2, thiid tlorsal i-ay and ])enultimate anal ray neai'ly 2 in 

 the head. 



('(ili>iir->ii(ii-Jiiii<i. — Body greenish white on the back and white below 

 with si.\ .saddle markings c()ni])osed of reddish brown spots and dispdsed 

 as in M. fnscKs. Eight or nine darker blotches are present along the 

 middle of the sides. Head mottled and dotted with reddish brown spots 

 which are largest on the cheeks and opercles. Dorsal tins with several 

 rows of brownish pink spots, their margins yellowish. Caudal with similar 

 spots; the rest of the tin and the pectorals, anal, and venti-als pale yellow. 



Vuriation. — The intensity of the coloui'-niarking varies greatly in 

 different specimens, though it is similarly disposed in all, and the relative 

 lengths of the doisal and anal spines and rays vary with growth. 



This species is similar in all structural details to M . JitaniK, and gi-eatly 

 resembles that species in its colour-maiking also, though it a{)parently 

 does not develop any light ocelli on the scales. It is chai-acterised however, 

 by having ten instead of nine anal rays, as we tind by counting a large 

 iiumlx'r of specimens of both species. 



Synonymy. — Soon after the description of (1. /.rcfflii, Steindacliner, 

 was published, its autluu- indicated, with iiiiich doubt, the identitv of his 



