732 ADDITIONS TO THE FAUNA OP LORD HOWE ISLAND, 



that though described thirty-three years ago the original type is 

 still unique, if we except a small example dredged by the 

 " Challenger " in the North Atlantic and supposed to belong to 

 Johnson's species. 



Appended are notes and descriptions of the species new to the 

 island : — 



GALEID^. 



Prionace glauca (Linnseus). 



During Mr. Brodie's last visit he captured a large female Blue 

 Shark from which he saw no less than 46 living young taken; a 

 few of these he secured and preserved, and on his return kindly 

 presented a pair to me, so that J am enabled to satisfactorily 

 identify the genus, of which but one cosmopolitan species is 

 recognised. This shark is said by Johnston to be common in 

 Tasmania, and the British Museum possesses " numerous foetus " 

 from Port Arthur, Tenison-Woods included it in his list of New 

 8outh Wales fishes, but gives no authority for the statement, 

 which has not since been verified. I had never seen an example 

 until Mr. Brodie showed these now under consideration to me, 

 and it is not included in Lucas' list of Victorian fishes, which 

 facts seem to prove that it is only locally "common" in Tasmania. 



SYNGNATHID^. 



HiPPOCAMPHUs PUNCTULATUS, Guichenot. 



There is a single specimen of this widely distributed "Sea- 

 Horse " in the collection forwarded to me by Mr. King ; it 

 measures 240 millimeters. Jordan and Evermann* remark in 

 reference to the Pacific form described by Bleeker as H%2ypocam2jus 

 kuda\ that "this East Indian species will probably be found 

 different," but I cannot detect the slightest variation between 

 their description and my specimen. This fish is now for the first 



Fishes of North and Middle America, i. p. 778. 

 t Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Iiid. iii. 1852, p. 82. 



