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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Family SCORPIDIDAE. 



SCORPIS Cuvier & Valenciennes, 18:]] (georoianus). 



SCORPIS GEORGIANUS Cuvier & Valenciennes (IJandcd Sweopj. 



Srorpis <jfor(ji<ini!s ( 'iiv. & \"al.. Hist. Nat. Poiss., \'iii, 1S:51, p. M)',], pi. ccxlv ; 

 Rich., Zool. Ercl). & Ten-., 1848, ]). 121. 

 It is i^ossiljle tlial this vmiy ])r()V(' to lie llic yoiuig' of S. (irqtdpiiiiits. 



SCORPIS AEQUIPINNIS Richardson (Sweei)).' 



AS'corp/.v aequtpinnis Rich., Zool. Ereb. & Terr., 1848, p. I'Jl ; 0<iil., Edil). Fish. 



N.S.W., 189.3, p. 38, pi. x: McCull., Rcc Ausi, .Alus., xi, 1!)17, p. 177, ti<-'. 2; 



Roughley, Fish. Aust., IDKi, ]>. 1 II, pi. xlv. 

 Scorpis lineolatus Kiier, Reise Novara, 1865, ji. 108, pi. a-, ti<i'. 3. 

 ticorpis hoops Peters, Sitzb., Akad. Berlin, 18(56, p. '^^i). 

 Scorpis ricliardsouil St(Mnd., Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wicn. liii, 18(i(i, ]>. 437, pi. v, 



fig. 1. 

 Scorpis ohlinifjiis ( Viiiestriiii, Arch. Zool. Aiiat. i2), i, 18()!), p. l.")3. 



y\iX- 172. Sci)ri)!,s (II (iiiijiiintis. 



The ISweep is a t'uvoin-ite food and sporting' fish, and always find a ready 



sale. 



