84 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



scales are extremely deciduous, and it is very rare to meet with a 

 perfect specimen ; the accompanying plate is from a beautiful 

 example kindly lent me by Mr. Ogilby. 



Family KYPHOSIDiE 



C^SIOSOMA, A'ffl?<p. 



C^SIOSOMA .S:QUIPINNIS, Richardson. 



Sweep, 



Scorjns cequijnnnis, Rich., Voy. Ereb. & Terr., Fish, 1844, p, 121. 

 Scorjns liueolata, Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1869, p. 108, 

 pi. v., fig. 3. 



Not once having entered the trawl, this common species finds a 

 place in the list by virtue of it having been taken at two places 

 with the hook, namely, over Schnapper Rock, between Cape 

 Hawke and Crowdy Head ; and on Young Banks, the favourite 

 Schnapper grounds off Crookhaven Bight. 



FamUy SCI-^NID^. 



ATRACTOSCION, Gill. 



ATRACTOSCION ATELODUS, Gilnther. 



Teraglin. 



Otolilhus atelodus, Giinth., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), xx., 1867, 

 p. 60. Tenison Woods, Fish and Fisheries N.S.W., 1882, 

 p. 54, pi. xvii. 



Stations 1, 11, 12, 23, 25. 



This species, so extremely common on our coast, has not yet 

 been recorded outside the limits of the Colony. Although some- 

 times taken in the seine, it is more often caught with the line at 

 moderate depths. Of the dozen examples trawled none exceeded 

 a foot in length, although it is known to attain to three times 

 tliat size. Attention may be drawn to the fact that the sound- 

 ings at all the above named Stations sliowed a sandy or muddy 

 bottom, the depths ranging from 16 io 48 fathoms, 



