22 STUDIES IN THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF QUEENSLAND 



The origin of the name, " Bullrout," is unknown, but I do 

 not think it likely to be a corruption of a native word (as sug- 

 gested by Mr. Woods) ; more probably it is connected with the 

 noise it makes when hooked, and which might have been 

 bestowed upon it by the early settlers from a fancied resemblance 

 to the distant bellowing of a bull. 



If we turn back now to the primary divisions (see p. 8) 

 into which I separated the species referred to Centropogon in 

 Giinther's Catalogue, we shall find that two species — C. fusco- 

 virens and C. leucoprosopon — were associated together in my third 

 section. The former species is known to me from the descrip- 

 tions given by Cuvier find Valencienes and by Giinther, the 

 latter only by Giinther's description ; both species are, however, 

 figured in the Atlas Ichthyologique.* Both are natives of Am- 

 boina from whence they were originally described, the one by 

 Cuvier, the other by Bleeker, who placed them in the 

 heterogeneous assemblage of species which were associated under 

 the name Apistus. But in a revision of the family published in 

 1876, the latter author founded for them the genus Paracen- 

 tropof/on (Versl. Ak. Amst., (2) ix: p. 297), + taking for his type 

 Apistus lonc/ispinis, Cuv. and Val., with which he had mean- 

 while identified A. fuscovirens.\ The synonymy of the species, 

 in the absence of necessary works of reference is somewhat 

 puzzling, but is probably not very different from the following : 



Paracentropogon longispinis. 



? Scorpana spinusa, Gmelin. 

 Apistus loiujispinis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



iv. p. 408, 1829, Amboina ; Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. 



Astrolabe, p. 694, Poiss. pi. xi. fig. 4, 1833. 

 Apistus fuscovir ens, Cuvier & Valenciennes, i.e., p. 409, Amboina; 



Quoy & Gaimard, I.e., p. 695, pi. xi. fi^'. 5; Bleeker, 



Amboina & Ceram, p. 269, 1852. 

 Apistes multicolor, Richardson, Voy. Samaraiig, Fish. p. 3, pi. 



iv. figs. 3 & 4, 1848. 



* No letterpress was issued with the plates of the Scorpcvnidce, and it is 

 quite possible, therefore, that I may not be correct in some of the deductions 

 which I have drawn. 



t No copy of this work exists in Australia. 



I My only grounds for this belief are that Apistus fiiscovirens is not 

 figured in the Atlas, and that both it and A. longispinis have a similar 

 dorsal ornamentation, and that the latter and A. leucoprosopos have been 

 united in the one genus. 



