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on the side to the lower base of the caudal. Abdominal sur- 

 face silver shot with blue. Head dark above, light-blue on 

 the cheeks and opercles. A dark band crosses the body 

 between the middle of the spinous dorsal and the abdomen, 

 which consists largely of the very broad blackish margins to 

 the scales. Spinous dorsal dark, the membrane between its 

 fourth and ninth spines being almost black ; soft dorsal dusky 

 anteriorly, becoming lighter backwards. Anal hyaline-blue, 

 pectorals hyaline, ventrals bluish- white basally, the rays 

 oecoming blackish towards the tips. 



Described and figured from a specimen 336 mm. long 

 from the snout to the end of the middle caudal rays. It was 

 collected by Mr. P. R. Pedley, to whom the Trustees of the 

 Australian Museum are indebted for many valuable specimens. 



This species has the general characteristics of P. 

 scanthurus, Bleeker/ 5 ' but may be at once distinguished by 

 the form of the spinous dorsal and by the distribution of its 

 colours. 



Family KYPHOSIDAE. 



Genus Kyphosus, Lacepede. 



Kyphosus fuscus (Lacepede), Giinther. 



Pimelepterus fuscus. Giinther: Jour. Mus. Godeff., ii., 1873, 

 p. 68. 



Four specimens are preserved in the Australian Museum 

 from Lord Howe Island and two from Norfolk Island. One 

 of the latter is an incipient albino, being of a light-yellow 

 •colour instead of dark-brown, with darker yellow stripes along 

 each row of scales. It is perhaps identical with the ■'Guinea- 

 fish" of Lord Howe Island, which has been very rarely 

 observed. ( 4 ) 



Family SCORPIDIDAE. 



Genus Atypickthys, Giinther. 



Atypichthys latus, n. sp. 

 PI. xl., fig. 3. 



D. xi.-xii. 14-15: A. iii. 13-15: P. 15-16: V. i. 5: 

 C. 17. 



Scales in 70-75 rows between the suprascapular and the 

 hypural joint; 12-13 scales between the lateral line and the 

 middle of the spinous dorsal, excluding the dorsal sheath. 

 Depth 2'04-2'l in the length to the hypural joint ; head 3*2-3'4 

 in the same. Eye longer than the snout, 2'5-2'8 in the head. 

 Snout 1*2-1'5 in the eye, and 3'5-4'0 in the head : its length is 



(3)Bleeker: K< i s. Faun. Madagascar, Poiss., 1878, p. 37, pi. xi. 

 (4)Waite: Rec. Austr. Mus., v. 3, 1904, p. 167. 



