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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Queensland. In “ Stone fishes and the Art of Camouflage,” McCulloch 78 wrote 
about Synanceja trachynis, but his figure on p. 159 shows the dissected venom 
apparatus of Synanceichthys verrucosus. Other notes on stonefishes, besides 
those already quoted, have been given by Banfield 79 and Cleland. 80 
Synanceja trachynis is said to reach a length of nearly 2 feet, but the 
average size of my specimens is about 11 inches. 
Family PLATYCEPHALIC. 
Subfamily 1NEG0CII1NLE. 
Genus SUGG RUX DUS nov. 
Insidiator Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxiii, Dec. 10, 1900, p. 368. Orthotype, 
[ Platyceplialus ] rudis Gunther. Id. Jordan & Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xlvi, 1913, 
p. 70. Id. McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour ii, 1914, p. 137. Id. Jordan & Hubbs, Mem. 
Carneg. Mus. x, 1925, p. 286. Id. McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v, 1929, p. p)2. 
Thysanophrys Jordan & Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxxiii, Feb. 28, 1908, p. 630; Check list 
Fish. Philip Arehip. 1910, p. 53. Not Thysanophrys Ogilby, s. sir. 
The generic name Insidiator Jordan & Snyder is perhaps preoccupied 
by Insidiator Amyot, 81 a non-binomial genus of insects, but is certainly 
preoccupied by Insidiator Oken, 82 a genus of fishes equivalent to Epibulus 
Cuvier, 83 and may be renamed Suggrundus, with Platyceplialus rudis Gunther 84 
as orthotype. This species is said to be equivalent to P. meerdervoortii Bleeker 85 
and should thus be known as Suggrundus meerdervoortii. 
Grammoplites Fowler 8 ® may be regarded as distinct from Suggrundus as 
the lateral line is armed throughout with spines, whereas in the latter genus 
there are spines only on the anterior portion. 
in the past, a large array of species has been included under “ Insidiator ” 
or confused with the distinct Thysanophrys Ogilby, 87 but work on these fishes 
has been rendered much easier by Jordan & Hubbs’s excellent key to the 
78 McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mag. ii, 5, 1925, pp. 159-162, 3 figs. 
79 Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber, 1908, p. 143 and plate. 
80 Cleland, Austr. Med. Gazette, Sept. 1912, pp. 3-30. 
81 Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France iii, 4, 1846, p. 481, non-binomial ( fide Sherborn, Index 
Animalium). 
8 ' 2 Oken, Allgemeiner Naturg., ITniv. Register. 1842, p. 199. Based on Epibulus Oken 
i = Cuvier]. Tautotype, Sparus insidiator Pallas. See also Cloquet’s articles on “Filou” and 
“ Insidiator” in Diet. Sei. Nat. 
83 Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. 1, ii, “ 1817 ” = Dec. 1816, p. 264. 
84 Gunther, Kept. Voy. Challenger, Zool. i, 6, 1880, p. 66, pi. xxix, fig. B. Japan. 
86 Bleeker. Acta Soc. Sei. Indo-Nederl. viii, 1860, p. 80, pi. i, fig. 3. Nagasaki, Japan (fide 
Jordan & Richardson, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus. xxxiii, 1908, p. 635). 
86 Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (2) xii, 4, June 10, 1904, p. 550. Orthotype, Coitus 
scaber Linno. “ Lateral line armed with spines.” 
87 Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S, Wales xxiii, 1, 1898, p. 40. Orthotype, Platyceplialus 
cirronasus Richardson. 
