﻿1 8 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



interest as showing how far north this species extends on our 

 coast. It extends around southern Australia and up to Hout- 

 man's Abrolhos on the west coast, and is also known from 

 Tasmania and New Zealand. 



Family ARGENTINIU^. 

 Genus Argentina, Linnceus. 

 Argentina elongata. Button. 

 Argentina elongata, Hutton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), iii., 

 1879, p. 53; id., Waite, Rec. Cantb. Mus., i., 191 1, p. 

 161, pi. xxiv. 

 ■ Thirteen examples of this species, 65-125 mm. long, differ 

 from a larger one from New Zealand only in the colour-mark- 

 ings. All have a dark band above the silvery lateral line on 

 which are arranged six to nine blackish spots. Near the tail 

 there is a second series on the lateral line and more or less 

 alternate to those above them. There is also a dark mark 

 on the side of the snout. Though they can be traced, these 

 markings are very indistinct in the larger specimen. 



They were taken at the following localities : — 



Entrance to Oyster Bay, Tasmania. 



Off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 30 

 fathoms. 



Fifteen miles off Norah Head, New South Wales, 45-58 

 fathoms. 



No species of this genus has been previously recorded from 

 Australian waters. 



Family SYMBRANCHID.^. 



Genus Cheilobranchus, Richardson. 



Cheilobranchus rufus, Macleay. 



Red-handed Shore Eel. 



Chilobnnichiis rufus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 



vi. , 1 881 , p. 266. 

 Cheilobranchus rufus, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1906, 

 p. 195, pi. xxxvi., fig. I. 

 Numerous specimens were obtained in Oyster Bay, Tas- 

 mania. 



Family LEPTOCEPHALID^. 



Genus Congermur.^na, Kaup. 



Congermur.^na habenata, Richardson. 



Little Conger Eel. 



Congrus hahenatus, Richardson, Zool. Ereb. & Terr., Fishes, 



1848, p. 109, pi. 1., fig. 1-5- 



