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336. Helicolenus Goode & Bean, Oceanic Icth., 1895, p. 248 (dactylopterus). 

 336a. H. percoides. Red Gurnet Perch. Sebastes percoides Richardson, 



A.M.N.H. ix.. 1842, p. 384, and Ichth. Erebus & Terror, 1845, p. 23, 

 pi. 15, 1-2 (PI. xxxviii.). 

 Common in deeper water, where it is captured by trawlers. Length 12 

 inches. 



337. Neosebastes Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg xiii., 1868, p. 

 83 (panda). 



A. More than 40 pores on lateral line. scorpaenoides (337a). 



AA. Less than 40 pores on lateral line. thetidis C&ZTo\ 



337a. N. scorpaenoides. Spotted Gurnet Perch. Id. Guichenot, Mem. 



Soc. S^ji. Nat. Cherbourg xiii., 1868, p. 85 ; Id. McCoy, Prodr. Zool Vict. 



dec. xx., 1890, pi. 193 (PI. xxxviii.). 

 A southern species, not common in this State. Length about 12 inches. 



337b. N. thetidis. Rough Gurnet Perch. Sebastes thetidis Waite, Mem. 



Austr. Mus. iv. 1, 1899, p. 100, pi. 20 (PI. xxxviii.). 

 Common in deeper water, where it is taken by the trawlers. Length 13 

 inches. 



338. Scorpaenodes Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xiii., 1857, p. 371 



(pohjlepis) . 

 338a. S. scaber. Pigmy Gurnet Perch. Sebastes scaber Ramsay & 



Ogilby, P.L.S. N.S.W. x., 1886, p. 577. Sebastopsis scaber McCulloch, 



Rec. Austr. Mus. ix. 3, 1913, p. 387, pi. 13, 2. 

 A small species, which is not common, about 3 inches long. 



339. Gltptauchen Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish, ii., '1860, p. 121 (pan- 

 duratus). 



339a. G. panduratus. Goblin-fish. Apistus panduratus Richardson, P. 



Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 58, pi. 1, 3-4 (PI. xxxviii.). 

 A rare species of grotesque appearance, which lives among rocks. Length 

 6 inches. 



340. Notesthes Ogilby, P. Roy. Soc. Qld. xviii., 1903, p. 17 (robustus). 

 340a. N. robusta. Bullrout. Centropogon robustus Gunther, Brit. Mus. 



Cat. Fish, ii., 1860, p. 128. Centropogon trosch-elii Steindachner, Sitzb. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien liii., 1866, p. 440, pi. 4, 1 (PI. xxxviii.). 

 Common in estuaries, and ascends rivers. It inflicts a painful wound with 

 its preorbital spines. Length 12 inches. 



341. Centropogon Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish, ii., 1860, p. 128 (australis). 

 341a. C. australis. Fortesque. Cottus australis Shaw, White's Voy. 



N.S. Wales, 1790, p. 266, fig. 1; Neosebastes australis Waite, Mem. 

 Austr. Mus. iv. 1, 1899, p. 103, pi. 21 (PI. xxxviii.). 

 Very plentiful at certain seasons in estuaries, and well known because of 

 its power of stinging with its preorbital spines. Length 6 inches. 



342. Pterois Oken, Isis, 1817, p. 1182 (volitans). 



A. Pectoral rays simple, the membrane deeply cleft between the upper ones. 



volitans (342a). 

 AA. Some of the pectoral rays branched, the membrane not deeply cleft. 



zebra (342b). 



