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Clupeoides macassariensis, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. 24 Having, 

 p. 17; or Nat. Tyclschr. Ned. Ind. 3, p. 772. 



This fish was seen in enormous shoals at Darnley Island during 

 the fortnight which the Chevert lay there. At that time — the 

 early part of August, 1875 — the whole northern shore of the 

 Island was literally black with them, and there would have 

 been no difficulty, with proper appliances, in preserving hundreds 

 of tons of these finest of all sardines. 



Family Chirocentrid.e. 

 130. — Chirocentrus dorab. 



Glupea dorab, Forsk. Dascr. An. p. 72, Lacep. 5. p. -125, Russell. 

 2, pi. 199. 



„ dentex, Bl. Schn., p. 428. 



Esox chirocentrus, Lacep. 5, p. 296. 



Chirocentrus dorab, Guv. Regne. Anim. Riipp. N. W. Fische, 

 p. 18. Richards. Ichth. Chin., p. 311. Cuv. and Val. 19, p. 150, 

 pi. 565. Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. 22, Madura, p. 6. Cant. Mai. 

 Fish., p. 277. Day. Fish. Malabar, p. 233. 



„ hypselosoma, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. 24, Chiroc, p. 



25, or Nat. Tyclschr. Ned. Ind. 3, p. 71. 



One specimen, three feet long, was taken in the seine at Cape 

 York. 



Family Mur,enid.e. 



131. — Conger marginatus. 



1 Murcena tota cinerea, Forsk. p. 22, No. 9. 

 ? Conger cinereus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 115, pi. 24, fig. 1. 

 Conger marginatus, Valenc. in Voy. Bon. Poiss, p. 201, pi. 9, 

 fig. 1. 



„ altipinnis, Kaup. in Wiegm. Arch. 22, p. 72, or Apod, 

 p. 114. Gunth. in Fish. Zang., p. 125. 



,, noordzicki, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Ind. Nederl. 2, 

 Amboyna, 8, p. 86, or Atl. Ichth. Mur., p. 26, pi. 23, fig. 2. 

 One specimen from Low Island Reef. 



