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beneath, including opercles, silvery ; fins brownish. Several 

 examples were washed on to the beach at Maroubra alive and 

 obtained by Mr. "Whitelegge. The largest specimens are equal in 

 size and measure 47 mm. in length. 



Type in the Australian Museum ; registered number I. 3297. 



NOMEUS GRONOVII, Gm. 



Respecting the distribution of N. gronovii Giinther writes : — 

 " Tropical parts of the Atlantic. The species appears to inhabit 

 also the Indian Ocean and the coasts of Australia." Macleay, 

 writing without further evidence, suggests Western Australia as 

 its habitat. It is now possible to give one definite locality of its 

 occurrence on Australian coasts. From Feb. 25 th to March 5th 

 last, living examples were being constantly washed up on to the 

 beach at Maroubra, and during this period Mr. Whitelegge 

 obtained several specimens. 



ScHEDOPHiLUS MACULATUS, Giinther. 



Up to September last, when Mr. Ogilby wrote his review 

 of the genus ScheiJophilus (Records, Australian Museum, II. 

 p. 65), only one example of *S'. macidatus had been obtained 

 from the coast of this colony. In December last Mr. A. M. Lea 

 brought us a small fish from Maroubra, which we identified as a 

 second example, and later in the same month a third specimen 

 was brought from Lord Howe Island by Mr. Icely, together with 

 the Dules argenteus already mentioned, and as with that species 

 is a new record to the known pisci-fauna of the island. 



Glyphidodon brownkiggii, Bennett. 



This very variable little species, which appears to be scattered 

 through the seas between Ceylon and the Sandwich Islands, has 

 not, so far as I am aware, been recorded further south than Fiji 

 or the New Hebrides. I am, however, able to record it from 



