76 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



HYPOPLECTRODES (Poey), Gill. 



HYPOPLECTRODES SEMICINCTUS, Cuvier <t Valenciemies. 



Half-banded Sea Perch.- 



Plectropoma semicinctum, Cuv. & Yal., Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix., 1833, 

 p. 442. Guich, Gay's Hist. Chile, Zool., ii., 1848, p. 153. 

 Ictiol, pi. ii., fig. 1. 



Not taken in the trawl. A single example was secured by hook 

 and line on the reef off Cape Hawke in company with rock- 

 frequenting fish. 



Under the impression that the term Hypoplectrodes, Gill, was a 

 nomen nudum, Mr. Boulenger, in his catalogue,* used the name 

 Gilhertia, Jord. and Eigen, for the genus. Dr. Gill thereupon 

 pointed outf that his diagnosis had been published by Professor 

 Poey, and should therefore be used. 



C^SIOPERCA, Castelnau. 



C^SIOPERCA LEPIDOPTERA, Forster. 



Bastard Longpin. 



Epinephelusle2ndopterus, (Forst.), Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 



1801, p. 302. 

 Scorpis hectori, Hutton, Fish. New Zeal., 1872, p. 4, pi. i., fig. 4. 



Station 15. 



A single specimen has been recorded from Port Jackson ; this 

 is in the Macleay Museum and was taken in 1895. Since that 

 time the Australian Museum has received one or two examples 

 from the mouth of the Hawkesbury River. This species was 

 obtained by the "Thetis" Expedition off Tuggerah Lakes in 32-48 

 fathoms in one haul only, when but two examples were taken. 

 I was rather surprised not to have trawled it at some of the 

 southern Stations, as it appears to be a southern form with its 

 headquarters off the Tasmanian coast, whence it journeys into 

 New Zealand waters. 



• Boulenger— Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. (2nd ed.l, i., 1895, p. 306. 

 t dill— Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xviii., 1896, p. 568. 



