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Family SCOMBRID^. 



Genus Scomber, Linnceus. 



Scomber japomcus, Houttuyn. 



Mackerel. 



Scomber japonicus (Houttuyn), Jordan and Evermann, Bull. 



U.S. Fish. Comm., xxiii., pt. i, 1903 (1905), p. 169, 



fig. 62. 

 Eighteen young examples, four and a half inches long, 

 were preserved from sixteen miles off Port Stephens, New 

 South Wales. The trawl was shot in 75 fathoms, but the 

 mackerel doubtless entered it as it neared the surface. 



Family TRICHIURID^. 

 Genus Thyrsites, Ciivier. 

 Thyrsites atun, Euphrasen. 

 Barracouta. 

 Scomber atun, Euphrasen, Vetensk. Acad. Nya. Handl., xii.^ 

 1791. P- 315- 

 Several young examples were preserved from off Flinders 

 Island, Investigator Group, South Australia, 37 fathoms, 

 and from forty miles west of Kingston, South Australia, 30 

 fathoms. Ihe species does not appear to have been previously 

 recorded from this State. 



Family BRAMID.^. 

 Genus Schuettea, Steindachner. 



Schuettea, Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien., liii. i., 



1866, p. 449 (5. scalaripinnis). 

 Bramichthys, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1905, p. 72 {B. 

 ivoochvardi). 

 The genus Schuetta, with scalaripinnis for its type, was 

 described by Steindachner in 1866 from four small specimens 

 taken in Port Jackson, but does not appear to have been again 

 noted by later writers. The Australian Museum collection 

 includes both young and adult examples which agree perfectly 

 with the definition. In 1905 Waite described a new genus 

 and species, Bramichthys zvoodtvardi, from Western Aus- 

 tralia, but a comparison of specimens of that species, recently 

 received from Mr. A. Abjornssen, with others of S. scalari- 

 pinnis shows that they are undoubtedly congeneric. 



The two species may be readily distinguished by the differ- 

 ent form of their bodies: — 

 a. Depth at the origin of the dorsal less than half the length 

 to the hypural : — scalaripinnis. 



aa. The same depth more than half the same length : — 



woodwardi. 



