BY J, DOUGLAS OGILBY. 647 



Just ten 3^ears ago Giinther* wrote as follows : — 



'' The instances of the occuiTence of this genus in the Pacific 

 are very few, viz., Trachypterus altivelis (Kaer)! from Valparaiso, 

 Trachypterus weychardti (Philippi)t also from the Chilian coast, 

 and TrachyfUrus arawatoi (Clarke) from the coast of jS^ew 

 Zealand." 



In addition to these, however, he refers to a species described 

 by Bleeker from the East Indian Archipelago under the name of 

 Trachypterus semiophorus,§; and himself records a very young 

 example dredged by the Challenger in the neighbourhood of the 

 Philippine Islands. 



To these I may add the occurrence of Trachypterus altivelis on 

 the coast of New Zealand as reported by Hutton, and of the same 

 species subsequently noticed from the seas of Tasmania by 

 Johnston; of a large specimen from Manly Beach described by 

 Ramsay as Regalecus jacksoniensis; of three specimens obtained 

 on the Victorian coast and figured by McCoy as Trachypterus 

 tmnia; and finally of a species described as new by Jordan and 

 ■Gilbert under the name of Trachypterus rex-salmono7'um\\ from 

 the open sea outside of the Bay of California. 



Confining myself to the species of which we have authentic 

 records from the south-western Pacific, as being of more immediate 

 interest to Australian biologists, the following list of specimens 

 will, I believe, be found accurate : — 



1. Trachypterus altivelis, Hutton, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. v. 1873, 

 p. 264. A dried specimen in the Auckland Museum; 

 length 500 millimeters. 



* Zool. Challenger, xxii. p. 72, 1887. 

 + Sitzb. Ak. Wien, xxxiv. i. 1859, p. 4.S7, pi. i.; this is the only Pacific 

 species mentioned by Gunther in his Catalogue of Fishes (iii. p. 303). 

 J Arch. f. Nat. xli. 1874, p. 118, pi. iii.; described from a photograph. 

 § I am unable to find any description of this species or even any reference 

 to the work in which it is described. 



II Proc. Calif. Ac. Sc. (2) iv. 1894, p. 144, pi. ix. 



