75G ox SOME AUSTRALIAN ELEOTRIN.E, 



:\liicleav as inhabitants of the rivers and estuaries of New South 

 Wales up to 1884, when his "Supplement" was published, but 

 two years later I was able to increase this number by four, adding 

 iHognrndo, gymnocephahis, striains, and richardsonii; two of these, 

 however, — masfersii and richardsonii — I have shown in the fore- 

 yoinf^ paper to be identical with coxii; a third — mogurada — I'ests 

 its claim upon its inclusion by Steindachner in his " Fishes of 

 Port Jackson {Sitzb. Ak. Wien, hi. i. 1867, p. 32S) and the 

 authority of a single specimen now in the Australian ISIuseum, 

 and said to have come from the Clarence River, and though this 

 is very possibly correct, still in the lack of confirmatory evidence 

 it is safest to look with suspicion on any record of its occurrence 

 so far soutli ; a fourth species — oxi/rephalus — I unhesitatingly 

 reject; this is one of the fishes said to have been obtained by the 

 collectors of the Novara during the short stay of that war-ship in 

 the waters of Port Jackson, but which has never been found since; 

 it is a Chinese and Japanese species, and the improbability of its 

 occurrence so far from its nati^■e shores is obvious.* With the 

 addition of the new species above described and of gobioides, 

 included by Steindachner in his Port Jackson fishes,! this leaves 



* Tlie following species, only recorded in the Fishes of the Xovara, 1 

 must excise from the New South Wales catalogue until more conclusive 

 evidence of their occurrence is available : — 1, Mesoprion marginaf w^ : 2, 

 Apoijon qHadrifasciafus; 3, Cha'todou setifer; 4, Lethrinns haral-.- 5, Ampha- 

 canthus hexago)iafu-'<: dyBatrachuffriipiuosus; 7, Gohius frenatus; S, Eleotris 

 oxycephalic; 9, Petroscirtes .soforeHsw ; 10, Mugil cephalotus; \\, Crtpido- 

 fiaMtr tasmanieihsix; 12, Ophiocej)halu>s striatus; 13, Polyacaiithns cvpanu-s.- 

 \A, PlatyglossuH trimandatiDi ; 15, P.seiidoscarus octodon; 16, Phombosolea 

 hporina; 17, Solea hmnllis; 18, Exoctetus unicoJor; 19, BaHste>i muridattis; 

 20, Tetrodon richei; and 21, Tetrodon eryfhrotcenia. I do not, of course, 

 assert that none of these fishes are found on the New South Wales coast, 

 some of them — such as 7, 11, 12, 17, and 21 — most probably are, but I 

 distinctly reject them so long as their claim to admission rests solely on 

 the unsatisfactory evidence adduced. 



t This is a New Zealand species, and its occurrence here requires 

 confirmation. 



