NOTES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, 



NOTES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 FISH-FAUNA OF NEW GUINEA. 



By E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., and J. Douglas-Ogilby. 



The fishes described in the following paper form part of the 

 collections obtained (1) by Mr. Froggatt during the recent 

 expedition sent out by the Geographical Society of Australasia 

 to New Guinea, and (2) by Mr. H. Sniithurst, chief engineer 

 of the Governor Blackall, during the official visit of the late 

 Sir Peter Scratchley to the coast of that island. In both cases 

 these gentlemen were fortunate in securing new and distinct 

 species, though, as may be supposed, Mr. Froggatt, having the 

 advantage of investigating a new and till then unexplored region, 

 obtained the greater number of novelties. Of the twenty-five 

 species brought home by the two expeditions no less than twelve are 

 here described as new, namely, — Ambassis gig as, Scolopsis macro- 

 plitlmlmus, Equula smithursti, Gobius concavifrons, N ematocentris 

 novce-guinece, JV. rubrostriatus, Arius froggatti, A. spatula,, Hemi- 

 pimelodus dayi, H. crassilabris, Engraulis scratchleyi and Corica 

 papuensis ; of the remaining thirteen species ten have not, so far 

 as we know, been recorded by previous authors from the south- 

 east coast of New Guinea: these ten are as follows : — Ambassis 

 agrammus, Synagris notatus, Lethrinus mahsenoides, Gazza minuta, 

 Eleotris porocephalus, E. butis, E. gyriaoides, Periophthalmus 

 schlosseri, Ghat'Oessus nasus, and Gyrtus gulliveri, of which latter 

 we give a full description on account of the many errors in that 

 of Count Castelnau. The remaining three are Toxotes jaculator , 



