22 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



around the end of the tail. Origin of the dorsal a trifle nearer 

 the tip of the snout than the vent, its distance from the gill 

 opening 2.3 in that from the vent. 



FIG. 7. 



Colour. — Pale green in formalin, speckled with minute 

 brown dots which are very small and crowded on the upper 

 surface, and larger near the lateral line ; anteriorly they 

 scarcely extend below the middle of the body, but posteriorly 

 they approach the ventral surface. Extreme end of the dorsal 

 and caudal darker, the fins otherwise colourless. 



Trawled in 35 fathoms, south of St. Francis Island, South 

 Australia. 



The specimens identified as Murcenichthys rnacropterus, 

 Bleeker, from Port Phillip and the Murray River, are probably 

 not that species, but are M. hreviceps, which is said by its 

 author to differ from the former by its comparatively shorter 

 head and longer snout. 



Family AULOPID/E. 



Genus Aulopus, Cuvier. 



AuLOPUS PURPURISSATUS, Richardson. 



Sergeant Baker. 



Aulopus purpurissatus, Richardson, Icones Piscium, 1843, P- 

 vi., pi. ii., fig. 3. 



Already known from western and eastern Australia, this 

 species is now recorded from South Australia, a specimen 

 having been trawled in 75 fathoms, fiftv miles south of Cape 

 Wiles. 



Family SUDID^. 



Genus Chlorophthalmus, Bonaparte. 



Chlorophthalmus nigripinnis, Giinther. 



Cucumber Fish. 



Chlorophthalmus nigripinnis, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(5), ii., 1878, p. 182, and Chall. Rept. , Zool., xxii., p. 



193, pi. Ii., fig. a; id., Waite, Proc. N.Z. Inst., 1910, 



p. 25, and Rec. Cantb. Mus., i., 191 1, p. 164, pi. xxv. 



This species exhibits considerable variation in its markings 



according to age, young specimens of about five inches long 



having the sides blotched and spotted with bluish-grey, 



whereas others of eleven inches are immaculate. The mark- 



