54 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



long synonomy must, I think, be added Saurida australis, Cast.,* 

 and Saurida trucidenta, Macl.,t both described from specimens, 

 taken in Port Jackson. 



Family AULOPID^. 



AULOPUS, Cuvier. 



AULOPUS PURPUPvISSATUS, Richard><on. 



Sergeant Baker. 



Aido2)us purjyurisscdus, Rich., Icon. Pise, 1843, p, 6, pi. ii., fig. 3; 

 McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict., Dec. vi., 1881, pis. 54, 55. 



Stations 7, 12. 



The two Stations at which this fish was trawled were off 

 Port Jackson, in 62-69, and off Broken Bay, in 23-34 fathoms 

 respectively. It was also taken with the Hne at three other 

 places, namely: — Schnapper Rock, south of the Manning River; 

 off Broughton Islands, north of Port Stephens; and southwai'd, 

 off Shoalhaven Bight. Although doubtless well known from the 

 first-named localities, I am inclined to think that it has not been 

 absolutely recorded so far north before. 



CHLOROPTHALMUS, Bonaparte. 

 CHLOROPTHALMUS NIGRIPINNIS, Gimther. 



Cucumber Fish. 



(Fig. 4). 



Chlorojythalmusnigrijnnnis, Giinth., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), ii. 

 1878, p. 182, and Chall. Report, Zool, xxii., 1887, p. 193, 

 pi. Ii., fig. A. 



Stations 4, 13, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 56. 



Since the Challenger expedition obtained two examples in 120 

 fathoms off Twofold Bay, numbers of this species have once or 

 twice been taken in the trawl outside Port Jackson in about 70 

 fathoms. We found it to be very common indeed, especially to 

 the southward of Botany Bay, where the trawl was lowei'ed 

 thirteen or fourteen times. It was not taken far northward of 

 Broken Bay (Station 13) nor southward of Wollongong (Station 

 49), and never in less than 41 fathoms, while it was most 

 numei'ously obtained at the deepest trials. 



* Castelnau— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Hi., !879, p. 393. 

 + Macleay— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi., 1SS2, p. 219. 



