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Records of the S.A. Mvsei'm 



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Fig. 47. Lcptoichtliys tistulariiis. 



Colours. Head light brown, opercles opalescent below. Body brown, darker 

 above, with some indications of markings : a dark brown marking on the anterior 

 edges of each scute: ventral surface of trunk opalescent, that of tail light brown. 



Hab. \'ictoria. South Australia, and south coast Western Australia. 



STIGMATOPORA Kaup, 1853 (argus). 



a. Sub-dorsal annuli 7-10 + 8-12: no opercular keel in adult: body 

 of female depressed 

 aa. Sub-dorsal annuli 10-12 + 6-7: an opercular keel: body of 

 female depressed and exiianded 



nigra 



STIGMATOPORA ARGUS Richardson. 



Syiiguothiis ari/ns Rich.. P.Z.S.. 1840. p. 29 and T.Z.S., iii, 1849, p. 183. pi. vii. 



fig. 2. 

 Stigmatopora argus Kaup. .Arch. f. Xaturg.. xix. 1853. p. 233. 

 Stigmatophora argus Kaup. Cat. Lophob., 1856. p. 53; Dum., Hist. Nat. Poiss.. 



ii, 1870, p. 583; Giinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 1870, p. 189; Cast. P.Z.S., 



Vict., ii, 1873. p. 77: Macl.. P.L.S.. N.S.W., vi. 1S81. p. 297: Dunck.. Faunn 



Sudwest Aust., ii, 1909, p. 239. 

 Stigmatophora olivacea Cast., P.Z.S.. \'ict.. i. 1872, p. 244 and ii. 1873. P- 77 '• 



Ogil.. Mem. Old. Mus.. i. 1912. p. 36. 

 Gastrotokcus gracilis Klunz.. .\rch. f. Xaturg.. xx.xviii. 1872, p. 44. 

 Stigmatophora unicolor Cast.. Res. Fish. Aust.. 1875. p. 49. 



Stigmatophora ilcprcssiusciila and (/racilis Macl.. P.L.S.. X.S.W'., vi. t88i. p. 299. 

 Stigmatophora argus var. brcvicaudata Lucas, P.R.S., Vict., iii (n.s.). 1891, p. 14. 

 Syiiguatlius olivacea and Syuf.niathus argus Zietz. T.R.S., S.A., xxxii, 1908, p. 298. 



