FISIIKS — WAITE. 127 



S('nlrs of both .si(k>s similar, more than twico as long as broad, 

 much expanded at the base, and narrowed suddenly at the free 

 end, whic-li is furiiisluMl with from seven to nine slender niai'glnal 

 spines. 



Latei'al line ecjually and similarly developed on })oth sides ; it 

 is quite straight from the head to the extremity of the caudal 

 rays ; on the head it is strongly arched, and being continued 

 forward it attains the dorsal profile above the eye. The number 

 of pores along the sti-aight line to the base of the caudal is one 

 hundred and two. There are nineteen pores along the curve of 

 the head, and eighteen on the caudal ray. 



Colours. — On the upper side dark brown, with twenty trans- 

 verse brown bars (extending on to the fins), of which five occupy 

 the head ; there are two bars on the caudal rays, of which the 

 posterior one is sub-marginal ; free portion of all the fins, a narrow 

 edge of membrane, and the whole under side, pale yellow. 



Total length of specimen 210 mm. 



The single example obtained, and from which the above des- 

 cription is made, was trawled off the coast between Cape Three 

 Points and Tuggerah Lakes, in 28 fathoms. 



In his description of this species Macleay states that pectoral 

 fins are absent. I am inclined to think that he overlooked them 

 and perhaps examined only the coloured side where the fin is most 

 inconspicuous, and especially so in an example scarcely more than 

 half the length of ours. Instead, therefore, of belonging to 

 Bleeker's Achiroides, it should be assigned to Anisochirus, charac- 

 terised by the left pectoral being longer than the right. 



Family ANTENNARIID^. 



ANTENNARIUS, Lacepede. 

 ANTENNARIUS NUMMIFER, Cuvier. 



Chironectes mimmifer, Cuv., Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., iii., 1817, 



p. 430, pi. xvii., fig. 4. 

 Antennarius niimmifer, Bleek., Atlas Ichth., v., 186-5, p. 18, 



pi. cxcviii. 



Station 48. 



This species, which has a wide distribution from Africa and 

 India to the South Seas, has been recorded by Macleay from Port 

 Jackson. The only example secui-ed by the "Thetis" expedition 

 was trawled off Wollono-ono- in 55 fathoms. 



