68 GALAXIAS FROM MOUNT KOSCIUSKO, 



can be easily caught in this way." " I saw some stockmen 

 amusing themselves in this manner, the whole outfit consisting of 

 a piece of black thread, a bent pin, and a fly." 



Distribution : — Streams and tarns on Mount Kosciusko and the 

 neighbouring uplands, including the head waters of the Snowy 

 River and its tributary, the Crackenback, where they were 

 obtained by Messrs. Curran and Hedley. Later on the former 

 gentleman obtained specimens from the streams draining the 

 northern and western slopes of Kosciusko and flowing into 

 the Murrumbidgee. Spawning in February. 



Eleven specimens measuring from 63 to 105 millimeters, were 

 utilised in drawing up the above description. 



Appended is a list of the species of Gulaxias at present known, 

 arranged in chronological order : — 



1801. alepidotns, Forster, Bloch and Schneider, S3rst. Ichth. p. 

 395; New Zealand. 



1817. tviittacetis, Cuvier, Regne Anim. ii. p. 283; Tasmania and 

 Victoria. 



1842. fasciatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 73; New Zealand. 



1842. maculatus, Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fish. p. 119, pi. xxii. f. 

 4; Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego. 



1842. alpinus, Jenjais, I.e. p. 121; Alpine Lakes of Hardy 

 Peninsula, Tierra del Fuego. 



1842. attenuatus, Jenyns, I.e. pi. xxii. f. 5; New Zealand, Tas- 

 mania, Victoi'ia, Falkland Islands, Western South 

 America northwards to Peru. 



1846. scriba, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xviii. p. 

 347; Port Jackson, New South Wales. 



1864. gracillimiis, Canestrini, Arch. Zool. Anat. e Fisiol. iii. p. 

 100, pi. IV. f. 2; Chili. 



1866. ocellatiif), McCoy, Intern. Exh. Ess. p. 14; River Yarra, 

 Victoria. 



