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RECORDS OF W A . MUSEUM. 
First dorsal high, the third spine the longest and about two- 
thirds as long as the head ; eleventh spine very short, one third as 
long as the twelfth. Anterior rays of the soft dorsal sub-equal, the 
margin rounded posteriorly. Second anal spine longest, very strong 
and laterally grooved; soft portion of the fin rounded. Pectoral 
reaching to, or not so far as the origin of the anal ; it has nine or 
ten simple lower rays. Ventrals rounded, reaching to, or almost to 
the vent. Caudal rounded. 
Colour. — Yellowish or reddish with darker marblings. Lower 
parts of the head and body with numerous irregular dark spots. 
Spinous dorsal marbled with reddish brown, and with or without a 
large dark blotch on the hinder part. Soft dorsal, caudal, and anal 
with red and brown spots forming irregular rows. Pectorals also 
spotted, ventrals plain. 
Described from two specimens 310mm. and 300mm. long, the 
first from Fremantle, and the property of the Western Australian 
Museum, and the second from Albany, and in the collection of the 
Australian Museum. A third is also in the Australian Museum 
from Houtmans Abrolhos. 
This species is allied to S. cardinalis, Richardson, but is at 
once distinguished by having only forty-four instead of fifty-five 
rows of scales below the lateral line, and in lacking the high median 
keel on the anterior part of the interorbital space. According to 
Castelnau his specimen had only ten spines in the first dorsal, but 
as this is an unusual number in the genus, and as my specimens 
agree in every other detail, I have no doubt that they are really 
S. sumptuosa. 
SCORPAENA BYNOENSIS, Richardson. 
Scorpaena bynoensis, Richardson — Voy. Ereb. and Terr., 184 \ p 22, pi. XIV., fig. 
3-4 ; Id., Klunzinger — Sitzb. Ak. Wiss Wien., I.XXX. I , 1879, p 366 
(synonymy). 
Sebaslapistes laotale, Jordan and Seale — Bull, U.S. Fish, Bur , XXV., 1906, p. 376, 
fig. 72 (variety). 
I have very carefully compared thirty-two examples of this 
species from various localities and find that they vary considerably 
in the development of the tentacles and cirri on the head and body. 
In one from Dunk Island, Queensland, the orbital tentacles are 
nearly twice as long as the eye, and other large ones are present on 
