. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 424 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. Family Scatophagidae. Selenotoca aetate-varians (De Vis, 1884). (Plate xxxi., fig. 39.) The type of Scatophagies multifasciatus var. altermans Castelnau, 1878, in the Paris Museum, is here figured. It evidently belongs to the genus Selenotoca Myers (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xlix., 1936, p. 84) and the species is synonymous with S. aetate-varians De Vis, 1884, as are also Scatophagies semistrigatus Saville-Kent, 1893 (spelt S. semistrigigena by Innes, The Aquarium, i., 11, 1933, p. 301) and t
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 424 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. Family Scatophagidae. Selenotoca aetate-varians (De Vis, 1884). (Plate xxxi., fig. 39.) The type of Scatophagies multifasciatus var. altermans Castelnau, 1878, in the Paris Museum, is here figured. It evidently belongs to the genus Selenotoca Myers (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xlix., 1936, p. 84) and the species is synonymous with S. aetate-varians De Vis, 1884, as are also Scatophagies semistrigatus Saville-Kent, 1893 (spelt S. semistrigigena by Innes, The Aquarium, i., 11, 1933, p. 301) and the young forms given the nomina nuda S. brunneus and chameleon by Saville-Kent. Selenotoca aetate-varians is the eastern and northern Australian cog- nate of the Western Australian Selenotoca multifasciata (Richardson, 1846). Scatophagus argus is represented in Australia by quadranus De Vis (sometimes spelt quadratus), whilst Desmoprenes tetracanthus (Lacepede) has been recorded from the Northern Territory. For references, see Austr. Mus. Mem., v., 1929, pp. 241 and 242. Family Latridae. Mendosoma allporti Johnston, 1881. (Fig. 40.) The accompanying sketch was made by the late A. R. McCulloch from a 14£ inch specimen in the Tasmanian Museum, Fig. 40. Real Bastard Trumpeter, Mendosoma allporti. Length to hypural joint, 317 mm. Head, 77. Depth, 106. Jaws very protractile, the upper symphysis with microscopic teeth. , 25; (first spine, if present, hidden in the flesh); P., 18, only the small one or two lower rays simple. Lateral line consisting of small scales intercalated between the larger ones on either side. There are about 67 to the hypural. Family Odactdae. Neoodax balteatus (Cuv. & Val., 1839). (Plate xxx., fig. 41.) The accompanying illustration is from a photograph of the type of Odax obscurus Castelnau, 1872, in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The specimen came from the Melbourne Markets and has less than 40 scales. Thu
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