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arranged in short, subverfcical rows of two to four on the sides 

 of the head and body, but the rows are oblique and longer on 

 the ventral expansion. 



The colour is light-green, with darker cloudy markings 

 disposed over the body and across the throat; these are more 

 distinct in the young than in older specimens, and are 

 usually lost in preservation. The dorsal and anal fins are plain 

 yellow, but the caudal usually bears a blackish curved band 

 on its posterior portion. 



C . sefos7fs is very similar to C. f/ranulafus, Shaw, but 

 differs in the armature of the dorsal spine, structure of the 

 scales, and number of dorsal and anal rays. The anterior 

 rows of spinules on the dorsal spine are very small in young 

 specimens (fig. 4), and quite obsolete in adults (fig. 5); the 

 scales each consist of several curved spinules instead of a single 

 truncate one, and the dorsal and anal rays number 33-35 and 

 31-36 respectively. 



It is, of course, well known that some fishes when drawn 

 from deep water have their organs more or less displaced 

 owing to diminution of pressure when at the surface ; this 

 is especially noticeable in those forms which possess an 

 unyielding body. Nearly all the Ostracions, for example, were 

 affected in this manner, their eyes being forced far out of the- 

 sockets, and the intestines, etc., driven through the mouth 

 or vent. Softer-bodied fishes suffer a more o^eneral distension, 

 and the eyes appear to be the first organs to be seriously 

 affected. The photograph of GantJierines setosus here repro- 

 duced (pi. xiv., fig. 6) well exhibits the appearance presented 

 by the bulging eyes, and it may be added that, owing to the 

 tenseness of the membranes, it was impossible to restore them 

 to their sockets by pressure of thumb and fingers. 



Loc. — This species occurs in moderately deep water off the 

 southern portion of the coast of New South AVales, Victoria, 

 Tasmania, and South Australia. A number of specimens 

 v/ere taken between Port Hackinp- and Vv^ollonsono-, New 

 South Wales, in 50-70 fathoms. Six others are preserved 

 from east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, in 40-100 fathoms, and 

 off the Investigator Group, South Australia, 37 fathoms. 



"Simplon" Station 2, 22 fathoms, and Station 8,. 

 72 fathoms. 



Note on Cantherines granulatus, Shaw. 



Balistes granulata, ShaAv : in White, Vov. N.S. Wales, 1790, 

 p. 295, pi. — . 



Monacanthus granulatus, Richardson : Voy. ''Ereb. and' 

 Terr.," Fishes, 1846, p. 63, pi. xl., figs. 1 and 2f Steindachner : 

 Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wein., liii., 1866, p. 476; Castelnaii : Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, N.S.W., iii., 1879, p. 398; Macleav : Proc. Linn.. 

 Soc, N.S.W., vi., 1881, p. 324. 



