56 SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF AUSTRALIA, 



12G6. Galaxias Findlayi. Macleay. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. VIL, p. 107. 

 Mount Kosciusko. 



1267. Galaxias auratus. Johnston. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. Tasman, 1882, p. 131. " Lake Trout." 

 . B. 9. D. 11-12. A. 14. P. 16. V. 1/7. 



" The height of the body is contained five times in the total 

 length ; the length of head nearly four times. The head is very 

 much depressed. Interorbital space wide, having three pairs of 

 poi'es over each eye. About seventy distinct pores, mostly in. 

 pairs, along usual course of lateral line. Head blackish. Body 

 of a bright transparent golden hue. Spots very large, rounded 

 and sometimes confluent above lateral line. No blackish bars across 

 shoulder. Ventrals tipped with black ; base and tips of anal and 

 dorsal blackish. Pectoral reaches half the distance from root of 

 ventral. Total length 9f inches." 



Hah. Great Lake, alt. 4000 feet. Tasmania. 



1268. Galaxias Weedoni. Johnston. 



Proc. Royal Soc, Tasman., 1882, p. 131. "Mersey Jolly-tail." 



D. 11. A. 14. P. 15. 



Body somewhat compressed. Length of head scarcely exceeding 

 the depth of bochy, and contained four and a half times in the 

 total length. Pectoral reaches half the distance to root of ventral. 

 Head and body brownish black ; back and sides marbled with 

 irregularly transverse wedged-shaped streaks, and bands of darker 

 hue. Caudal bifurcate. Length 4 J inches." 



Mersey River, Tasmania. 



1269. Galaxias Atkinsoni. Johnston. 



Proc. Boy. Soc, Tasman., 1882, p. 131. "Pieman Jolly-tail." 

 B. 9. D. 11. P. 13. A. 14. V. 8. 



" Length 4^ times that of the head, and the latter is equal to 1| 

 the height of the body. Diameter of eye equal to length of snout 



