1024 CORRECTION OF CERTAIN ERRORS IN PREVIOUS PAPERS. 



NOTE IN CORRECTION OF CERTAIN ERRORS IN 



PREVIOUS PAPERS. 



By Dr. Ramsay and J. Douglas Ogilby, 



(Notes f ran the Australian Museum,.) 



In the description of Tteroinlatea australis (P.L.S.N.S.W. X. 

 p. 575) the following passage occurs : — " Tail . . . without 

 spine or rudimentary fin." Of three specimens received since the 

 publication of this description (Oct. 1885) two plainly show the 

 rudimentary fin, and one, the largest (37 inches across disk), 

 possesses a short spine in addition. No other differences are 

 however discernible, and the presence or absence of an organ in a 

 rudimentary and evidently gradually disappearing state cannot 

 alone be held to be sufficient to justify the specific, much less the 

 generic, separation of these fishes. 



In P.L.S.N.S.W. I. (2), p. 131, we described a small Coris from 

 the New Hebrides under the name of C. variegata. Having subse- 

 quently ascertained that Bennett (Fish. Ceylon pi. XX.) gives a 

 very fair representation of our fish as Labrus aureo-ynaculatus, 

 our name necessarily lapses, and the species must in future be 

 known as Coris aureo-onaculata. It is necessary, however, to 

 mention that Dr. Giinther considers Bennett's fish to be the 

 same as Lacepede's Labrus cingulum, while Mr. Day goes even 

 further and unites that author's C. aygula with his C. cingulum^ 

 the former name having the priority. 



In the description of Carcharias macrurns (I.e., p. 163) it 

 is stated that " the space between the dorsal fins is rather 

 more than one-thii'd of the distance between the end of the 

 second and the base of the caudal ■" this should of course have 

 been " . . . . rather more than three times " 



