NEW RECORDS or RECURRENCES of RARE FISHES 

 FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Zoologist. 



(Plates xli. - xliii.) 



In the present paper I record three fishes not previously recognised 

 from New South Wales. Food is the chief matter dealt with under 

 Cetorhinus maximus, Gunner; a short description is given of a 

 specimen of Tetragonurus cuvieri, Risso, taken in our waters; 

 and Pomadasis hasta, Cuvier and Valenciennes, is recorded from 

 an example secured in the Richmond River. 



A catch of three specimens of Chimcera ogilbyi, Waite, is 

 recorded, and descriptions and figures each of Prototroctes marcena, 

 Giinther, and Harjje vulpina, Richardson, are furnished, both 

 species being very rare in our waters. 



Finally, a description is published of Vahnciennia longipinnis, 

 Bennett, from an example taken on the Barrier Reef, Queensland. 

 The nature of the original figure suggested the advisability of 

 re-illustrating the species. I have, therefore, taken great pains 

 with the drawing now offered. 



Cetorhinus maximus, Gunner. 



Squalus maximus, Gunner, Trondhjem. Selskabskr., iii., 1765, 

 p. 33. 



To Mr. J. A. Boyd, of Eden, we owe the privilege of first 

 recording this interesting Shark for New South Wales. In May, 

 1901, this gentleman forwarded a piece of "baleen," which I 

 recognised as portion of the gill of Cetorhinus, the shark having 

 been taken in Twofold Bay. On the 14th August following, 

 another Basking Shark entered the bay, and was shot. Its 

 identity was recognised by Mr. Boyd, who watches our interests 

 in this locality, and the specimen was at once forwarded to 

 Sydney. It proved to be a young male, ten and a half feet in 

 length. 



The stomach and intestines were found to be charged with 

 food, the whole forming a gelatinous-like substance of a bright 

 salmon colour. Mr. Thomas Whitelegge, to whom I submitted a 

 sample, pronounces it to be composed of the Anomurous Crustacean 

 Munida subrugosa, White, commonly called "Whale-food," a 

 term applied to pelagic assemblies of Pteropods or Crustaceans. 



