BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 731 



In the earliest list of the fishes of Lord Howe Island* five 

 genera were recorded the species of which were indeterminable, 

 namely : — Pseii^doscarus, Balistes, Gobioides, Petroscirtes and 

 Lotella. It is satisfactoiy to me to be able to announce that two 

 of these can now be supplied with specific names, the Petroscirtes 

 having been described by me as /-*. icelii,^ while the Lotella is 

 here identified with the Australian L. callarias. We are still in 

 the dark, however, as to what species of Pseudoscarus, Batistes 

 and Gobioides occur in the seas of the island, and to these I am 

 unfortunately compelled to add a species of Canthidermis which 

 from its small size I am unable to determine satisfactorily. Of 

 course this may be the young of the species upon the evidence of 

 whose upper jaw the presence of a balistid was recorded in 1889; 

 I ha%'e also a, note of an undetermined species of Ophisurus and 

 one also of Plagusia. There is also in this collection a scopelid 

 in too bad condition to be recognisable. 



The present additions bring the number of species recorded as 

 inhal3iting or visiting the shores of the island up to 11 3, wath 7 

 (or 6) unidentified forms; doubtless if an exj^ert were to spend a 

 few weeks there this number could be largely increased, since 

 many families which should be common are at present represented 

 bv few or no species. As it is the list, as it now stands, needs 

 careful revision, but I hope within the next few months to be in 

 a position to lay before the Society a thoroughly revised and 

 enlarged catalogue of the fish-fauna of the island. 



The resemblance between Maderia and Lord Howe Island 

 which has been noticed by many authors and which was 

 strengthened by the discovery of a species of TetragonurusX some 

 thirteen years ago now receives additional confirmation in the 

 discovery of a genus allied to Nealotus, Johnson, a fish so rare 



* "Lord Howe Island: its Zoology, Geology, and Physical Characters" 



(Austr. Mus. Mem. No. 2), Fish. pp. 52 to 7-t iocL, by J. Douglas Ogilby, 



1SS9. 



t Proc. Linu. Soe. N.S. Wales, xix. 1894, p. 370. 



::: Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, x. 1886, p. 718 (as Ctenodax 

 u-illcinsoni) and I.e. xi. 1886, p. 511; Ogilby, I.e. xiii. ISSS, p. 9. 



