DESCRIPTION OF A NEW AUSTRALIAN FISH 



OF THE GENUS CONGIOPUS. 

 By EDGAR R. WAITE, F.L.S., Dirkctor, S.A. Museum. 



Fig. 338. 



The genus Congiopus wns roiuidcd l)y Perry, with C'i percatus as type; Its 

 status being as below : 



Congiopus Perry, Areana or ]\Ius. of Ncit. Hist., 1811. 

 Agriopas Cuvier, Reg. Anini. (ed. 2), ii, 182!), p. 168. 

 Cephalinus Gronow, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus. (ed. Gray), 1854, p. 159. 

 Congiopodus Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sei. Wash., vi, 18!J3, p. 118. 



I am nnable to consult Perry's work, \ydvi of which appears to have been 

 issued in 1810 and part in 1811. Marschall (^) does iiot seem to have seen the 

 "Arcana," but lists the genus under the form Congiopodus; this mis-spelling 

 and the erroneous date (1871) have been copied by most subsequent authors. 

 Cuvier was aware of Perry's paper, as noted in the "Hi.stoire." (-) 

 In his "Genera of Fishes" (^) Jordan erroneously credits the editorship of 

 Gronow 's work to Albert Giinther. 



Fig. 33i. Congiopus IcucoDietopon. 



(1) Marschall, Nomenel. ZooL, 1873, p. 71. 



(2) Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1829, p. 382, footnote. 



(3) Jordan, Genera of FisheSj ii, 1919, p. 258. 



