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])r. Giintlun- \vi-it('s : — {Joe. cit.) " Tain iiicliiicd to doubt tlio occur- 

 rence of tliis sliore fish at so i^reat a depth as 250 fathoms, and it 

 does not seem to me to lie iin[)rol)ahh' tliat this s])ecinien <^ot into 

 the trawl when near to the surface of the water." 



Oif Brough ton Ishmd the " Thetis " trawled a fine exanii)le of 

 F. serrnta in 29-48 fathoms : on the other hand, we Jiave recei\'ed 

 from Mr. Henry Newcond)e, this species, taken with hook and 

 line at Coogee, on the coast, a few miles south of Port Jacks(jn. 

 Both these specimens were of a l)eautiful terra-cottii colour when 

 first obtained. 



Family MACKORHAMPHOSIDJE. 



M A C R O R H A M P H 8 U S, Lacepcde. 



MACRORHAMPHOSUS SCOLOPAX, LinvamH. 



var. ELEVATUS, nov. 



Bellows Fish. 



(PUte vii., fig. 1.) 



Centriscus scolojmx, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. xii., 1766, i., p. 415. 



Day, Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, i., 1880-84, p. 249, 



pi. Ixix. 

 Macrorhamphosus scolopa.r, Goode & Bean, Ocean. Ichth., sp. Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus., 1895, p. 483, pl. cxvii., fig. 396. 



Stations 2, 4, 9, 13, 17, 20, 21, 25, 37, 38, 41. 



This species proves to be quite common off the coast of the 

 colony, although not previously recorded. It was obtained at 

 eleven stations, and altogether about fifty specimens were taken. 

 Its distribution on the New South Wales coast, as determined by 

 our observations, is from south of Port Hacking to Broughton 

 Island ; and its vertical I'ange from 23 to 84 fathoms. AUjDort 

 (MS.) recorded it from Tasmania, but Johnston* remarked : "It 

 is questionable whether the Tasmanian species may not be C. 

 httmerosus, Rich. I have not yet examined any local specimens." 

 Under C. gracilis, Macleay wrote "j" : " C. scolopax I have never 

 seen here. Mr. Johnston's scolopax is probably this species." 

 Johnston, however, later, set the question at rest as follows J : 



* Johnston — Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas., 1SS2, p. 123. 



t Macleay— Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., ix., 1894, p. 42. 



t Johnston— Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas., 1884, p. 255. 



