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Ilhtiopterns lahiosus Gimth., P.Z.S., 1871, p. 658, ])1. lix ; Ogil., Eclib. Fish. 



N.S.W., 1893, p. 29, pi. vii. 

 Richardsonia insignis Cast., P.Z.IS., A'ict.. i. 1872. p. 112. 

 Prristiopterus lahiosiis Bleek., Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nut., xi. 187(i, p. 268. 

 Histiopterus farneUi Waite, Thetis Prelim. Rep., 1898, p. 38, pi. iv and Mem. 



Aiist. Mils., iv, 1899. p. 116, pi. xxvii. 

 Macc.uUochia lahiosa Waite, Proe. X.Z. Inst., i, 1910. p. 2.") ; lioughley. Fish. Anst., 



1916, p. 127, pi. xli. 



Family OPLEGNATHIDAE. 



OPLEGNATHUS Richardson, 1840 (eonwaii). 

 OPLEGNATHUS WOODWARDI Waite (Knife-jaw). 



Iloplcgnaihus wuodn-<n(J.i Waite, Rei-. Aust. ilus.. iii, 1900, p. 212, pi. xxxvii. 

 Oplegnathus woodirardi- Waite & MeCull.. T.R.S., S.A., xxxix, 1915, p. 464; 



MeCull., Endeavour Res., iv, 1916, ji. 187. pi. liv ( youno'^. 

 Iloplegnathus (iKstralis Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., i, 1916, p. 169. 



Fig. 183. OpIegiUttliiis ivdodirardi. 



Easily recognized from the fact that its teeth are fused into a pair of plates, 

 whence the term Knife-jaw. 



