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ENDEAVOUE" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Ha\ing disposed of these apparent differences I have no 

 hesitation in following Macleayi in uniting the two species. 



The "Endea\"our" collection includes fifteen specimens from 

 the follow ing stations : — 



Off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 40 

 fathoms. 



03Ster Bay, Tasmania. 



Forty miles west of Kingston, South Australia, 30 fathoms. 



Flinders Island, Investigator (jroup, South Australia, 37 

 fathoms. 



Fi\e others are in the Australian Museum from Tasmania 

 and South Australia. 



C.KSIOPERCA LEPIDOPTERA, Forstcr. 



Bastard Longjin. 

 Ccesioperca lepidopiera (Forster), Boulenger, Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 Fish., jnd ed., i., 1895, P- 3^- I "'•' ^^ aite, Prelim. Rept. 

 "Thetis" Exped., 1S98, p. 31, pi. i. 

 Though a large black spot on each side below the lateral 

 line is characteristic of this species, yet some specimens in the 

 collection show that it may occasionally be absent. Others 

 also are marked with many small greenish spots which some- 

 times form short, irregular lines, and may be so crowded on 

 the upper parts as to darken them considerably, while still 

 others show three yellow longitudinal bands along the sides 

 below the lateral line. 



Twenty-two specimens were examined from the following 

 localities : — 



Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 

 Off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 40 

 fathoms. 



Ovster Bay, Tasmania, 40-bo fathoms. 



Flinders Island, Investigator (iroup. South .Australia, t,-j 

 fathoms. 



Gexl's ExoPLOSi'S, Lac'ep'ede 

 ExoPLOsus ARMATUS, Shaw. 

 Old V,'ife, Bastard Dorey, Zebra Fish. 

 Chatodoii arniatus, Shaw in White, \'oy. N.S. Wales, 1790, 

 p. 254, fig. I. 

 Specimens of this widely distributed species were preserved 

 from off the Clarence Ri\er, New South Wales, 26-30 

 fathoms, Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 f'lthoms, 

 and off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 40 

 fathoms. 



1 Macleay— Prof. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ix.. 1884, p. 4. 



