﻿FISH Ks.- Mcculloch. 



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Family AE IOBATID.'E. 

 Genus Aetobatus, Blainville. 

 Aetobatl'S australis, Mach'iiy. 

 Eagle Ray. 



Myliobatis aquila, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., viii., 1870, 



p. 489; id., Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. \'ict., i., 1872, 



p. 225 {nee Raja aquila, Linn.). 

 Myliobatis nieuhofii, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., i., 



1872, p. 226, and ii., 1873, p. 58 (riec Raja nieuhojl, Bl. 



Schn.). 

 Myliobatis australis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 



vi., 1881, p. 380; icL, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. \'ict., pi. Ixiii., 



1882. 

 A young specimen is preserved from the Shoalhaven Bight, 

 New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 



Giinther identified some very young Myliobatis from Sydney 

 with M. aquila, Linna?us, though he noted certain characters 

 in their teeth which did not agree with those of that species. 

 Castelnau (1873) suggested that this identification was in- 

 correct and considered that they were probably the young of 

 M. nieuhofx, Bl. Schn. Waite regarded them as M. australis, 

 MaCleay, as is evident from the fact that he omitted aquila 

 from his list of the fishes of New South Wales. 1 In another 

 paper2 he expressed the opinion that M. uieuhofi and M. aus- 

 tralis were identical, but it would seem that they differ in 

 the forms of their snouts, it being somewhat produced in the 

 former, and blunt and short in the latter. 



McCoy showed that M. australis occurred in Port Phillip, 

 and under the circumstances I have little doubt that Castel- 

 nau 's specimens were really that species and not M. nieuhofi. 

 I therefore arrange the synonymy as above. 



Family CHIM^RID.^. 



Genus Chimera, Linnceus. 



Chim.lra ogilbvi, IVaite. 



Ghost Shark. 



Chimccra ogilbyi, Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., pt. i., 1899, 

 p. 48, pi. vi. ; id., Shigeho Tanaka, Journ. Coll. Sci. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokio, xxiii., Art. 7, p. 10. 



1 Waite -Mem. N.S. Wales Nat. Club., ii.. 1904. 



2 Waite— Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1899, p. 47. 



