BY ALLAN R. MCCULLOCH. 265 



figure represents them very accurately in all but one detail; in 

 all my specimens, the upper caudal lobe is distinctly longer than 

 the lower, whereas he illustrates them as subequal, though he 

 notes variations of this character in his description. 



Very little is known of the habits and migrations of the Black 

 Kingfish in Australian waters. It is probably not uncommon 

 near the surface along the northern portion of the New South 

 Wales coast and southern Queensland. Examples are occasion- 

 ally forwarded to the Sydney markets among other fish, but they 

 are generally of small size, though individuals four feet long are 

 not unknown. The two large specimens referred to above were 

 captured with the rod by Dr. Mark C. Lid will and Mr. C. H. 

 Gorrick in March and April, 1914, not far from the rocks off 

 the south head of Port Stephens. They each took a garfish bait 

 which was trolled at a speed of about five miles an hour, and 

 they offered but little fight when hooked, diving straight to the 

 bottom and stopping there. 



Family LABRID.^. 

 Genus Hemigymnus Giinther. 



Hemigymnus Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), viii., 1861, 

 p.386. 



Cheilolahrus Alleyne &l Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 i., 1877, p.345. 



Alleyne and Macleay have counted the dorsal and anal fins of 

 Cheilolahrus as 8/10 and 2/10 respectively, but four typical speci- 

 mens of C. inagnilabris, preserved in the Macleay Museum, have 

 the normal 9/11 and 3/11, though the anterior anal spine is small 

 and easily overlooked. 



Hemigymnus melaptekus Bloch. 



Uemigymnus melapterus (Bloch) Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., i., 1864, 

 p.l42, Pl.xlv., figs.2-3. 



Cheilolahrus maguilahris Alleyne ife Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, i., 1877, p.345, PI. xvi., fig.2. 



Four specimens, which are the types of C. maguilahris, agree 

 very well, both in form and colour, with Bleeker's figure of Hemi- 

 gymnus meCapteriLs-. they also do not differ from others from Port 



