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three and one-fourth times as deep as wide in a large female, lower in the male: 

 in young examples the body is only one and four-fifths times deeper than wide. 



The eggs are large, being about 4'5 mm. in diameter. 120 were attached to 

 the male here illustrated. 



-\dult examples are 350 mm. in total length. 



Life Colours. Rack of body dark olive: head and sides of .dKlomen vellow, 

 with dark lines, forming a fine network, snout brown with rouni! white dots, tip 

 yellow: sides of thorax hyaline, with sexen oblique purple bar;, similar bars on 

 the abdomen, in outline only. Three purple spots on each aide of the vent, the 

 middle spot large. Throat and lower part of trunk deep lemon yellow. Back of 

 tail reticulated like sides of abdomen, sides plain yellow, terminal third wholly 

 black. Spines coloured like the snout, appendages purple with black edges, dorsal 

 and pectoral fins pink. Eggs on male, taken December 6, 192(1, riibv coloured. 

 The small tags, as figured by ■McCoy, lieneath the snout, are not present in anv 

 specimen we have seen. 



Hab. Southern .Australia from New .South Wales to ^Veste^ll .\u'^tralia 

 and Tasmania. 



PHYLLOPTERYX EQUES Gunther. 



Pliyllo/^tcryx ei/iics Giintli., P.Z.S., 1865, p, 327. pi. xv and Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 

 viii, 1870, p. \()y: Dum.. Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 1870, p. 533: Alacl., P.L.S., 

 N.S.W"., vi, 1S81, p. 302: Dunck., Fauna Siidwest .^ust., ii, 1909, p, 237. 



Pliycodiinis C(jitrs C,']1\. ['roc. U..S. X;it. Mus.. xxiii. 1805, p. 159. 



Fig. 52. 



D. 35-37: P.21 (lQ-20): A.+ :.-\nnuli 1 8 (19) + 36-40: sub-dorsal aniuili 0.1 -f 1 1 ; 

 brood annuli, caudal 4tli-23rd. 



Sn<iut I -6 to I 7 in the head: eye 4 '8 to 5T in the snout and 8 -Q to 8-5 in 

 the head: head i 3 in the trunk, wdiich is 3-3 in the total length. 



.Snout long, more than twice as long as the postorbital portion of the head ; 

 a small spine on the posterior third of each of its upper edges : a pair of small 

 branched filaments beneath the lower jaw and another pair of trilobed appendages 

 behind the middle of the lower eflge of the snout : forehead produced forwards 

 and u|iwards into a sub-quadrangular crest, (i\crhanging the posterior third or 

 fourth (if the snout: a pair of spines over the eyes: a bifurcate spine projects 

 laterally from the upper margin of each orbit : occiput much elevated, with two 

 blunt spines on its summit bearing bunches of narrow, branched appendages: a 

 long and slender or feeble spine on the upper angle of the opercle. Nape with 

 a strong spine, the lower half of which is dilated and compressed to form a ribbed 



