108 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



more than probable that examples were elsewhere overlooked for 

 reasons given in the above note. I have since taken another 

 specimen in Jervis Bay. 



CHELIDONICHTHYS, Kaujj. 



CHELIDONICHTHYS KUMU, Lesson & Garnot. 



Red Gurnard. 



Trigla kumu, Less. & Garn., Voy. Coquille, Poiss., 1826, pi. xix. 

 Chelidonichthys ku7nu, Jord. & Everni., Report U.S. Com. Fish, 

 for 1895 (1896), p. 488, footnote. 



Stations 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 21, 26, 31, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 

 47, 52, 54, 58, 59. 



A glance at the above figures might give one the idea that the 

 species is plentiful on the coast ; this, however, would be scarcely 

 correct, for although taken on twenty-two occasions, not more 

 than five or six were averaged at each take, while some of the 

 stations are represented each by a single individual. 



Several examples of three or four inches in length obtained 

 would indicate that the spawning season is about November or 

 December, as deduced by Ogilby.* The largest example I 

 measured was 580 mm. (22| inches) in length. 



PTERYGOTRIGLA, gen. nom. nov. 



This name is proposed in lieu of Hoplonotus for Trigla jjolyotn- 

 mata, Rich. In 1866 Guichenot made this species the type of 

 a new genus, using the name Hoplonotus : this name is untenable, 

 having been, in 1851, applied by Blanchard to a genus of Coleop- 

 tera. 



PTERYGOTRIGLA POLYOMMATA, Richardson. 

 " Flying " Gurnard. 



Trigla polyommata, Rich., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 96, and Trans. 



Zool. Soc, iii., 1849, p. 87, pi. v., fig. 2. 

 Hoplonotus polyommatus, Guich., Ann. Soc. Linn, Maine-et-Loire, 



Ichth., ix., 1866 {fide Zool. Rec. 1866, p. 146.) 



Stations 1, 11, 38, 40, 41, 43, 46, 56, 57. 



This species was taken less commonly than the last, but all the 

 specimens were of large size, smaller ones being almost unknown 



* Ogilby— Edible Fishes, N.S.W., 1893, p. 110. 



