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Family MONACANTHIDAE. 

 OANTHERINES, Swainson, 1839. 

 Cantherines ayraudi, Quoy and Gaimard. 

 Balistes ayiaudi, Quoy and Gaim : Voy. ''Uranie," Poiss., 

 1824, p. 216, pi. xlvii., fig. 2. 



Aluteies velutinus, Jenyns : Voy. ''Beagle," Fish., 1842, 

 p. 157. 



Monacanthus vittatvs, Richardson: Voy. ''Ereb. and Terr.," 

 Fish., 1846, p. 66. 



Monacanthus frauenfeldii, Kner : Voy. ''Novara," Fische, 

 1867, p. 397. 



Monacanthus ayraudi, Giinther : Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii., 

 1870, p. 244. 



Pseudonionacanthus ayraudi, Waite : Mem. N.S.W. Nat. 

 Olub, ii., 1904, p. 56. 



Chinaman Leather Jacket. 

 Stations 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 22-140 fathoms. 



Cantherines hippocrepis, Quoy and Gaimard. 



Balistes hippocrepis, Quov and Gaim. : Voy. ''Uranie," Poiss., 

 1824, p. 212. 



Aleuterius variabilis, Richardson: Vov. "Ereh. and Terr,," 

 Fish., 1846, p. 67, pi. lii., figs. 1 to 7. 



Monacanthus hippocrepis, Hollard : Ann, Sci. Nat., ii., 1854, 

 p. 338. 



Pseiidotnonacanthus hippocrepis, Waite: Mem. N.S.W. Nat. 

 'Club, ii., 1904, p. 56. 



Variable Leather Jacket. 

 Station 5, 85 fathoms. 



Cantherines mosaicus, Ramsay and Ogilby. 



Monacanthus mosaicus. Rams, and Ogil. : Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., xi., 1886, p. 5. 



Canthci ines mosaicus, McCulloch : "Endeavour" Sci. Res., iii., 

 1915, p. 170, pi. xxxvii., figs. 1 and 2. 



Mosaic Leather Jacket. 



Station 7, 85 fathoms. 



Cantherines setosus, Waite. 



Monacanthus setosus, Waite: Mem, Aust. Mus., iv., 1899, 

 p. 91, pi. xvi. 



Velvet Leather Jacket. 

 PI. xiv. 

 In v/ell-preserved specimens of this species the scales are 

 papilliform and not setiform. Each consists of several curved, 

 upstanding spinules, which are surmounted by rounded fleshy 

 papillae (fig. 3), but these latter are entirely lost by shrinkage 

 in old spirit specimens (fig. 2) ; the spinules are usually 



