36 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FISH-FAUNA of LORD HOWE 

 ISLAND, No. 2. 



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



(Plates V. - viii.) 



The present coatfibution to the Fish-fauna of Lord Howe Island 

 is the result of an examination of two collections obtained in 

 1900. The first, made by Mr. W. S. Thompson, a resident on 

 the island, to whom the Trustees owe other courtesies, consists 

 of but half-a-dozen species. One of these, however, is an interest- 

 ing new Labroid. The second collection is the result of gatherings 

 by our friend Mr. Frank Farnell, Honorary Visiting Magistrate 

 to the island. It is more extensive, and, though not yielding 

 novelties, enables me to add six species to the known fauna, and 

 to sppcificallly recognise an undetermined record, namely, Scarus 

 pyrrhostethus, Richardson. I have also added two species obtained 

 in 1894, but not previously recorded. 



The new records are as follows ; species unrepresented on the 

 New South Wales mainland being denoted by an asterisk (*) : — 

 Anguilla reinhardtii, Steindachner. 

 * Hyjyorhamphus sp. 

 *Upeneus pleurostigma, Bennett. 



Nomeus gronovii, Gmelin. 

 *'rhalassoma iimbrostiyina, Riippell. 

 * liiiistiiis cacatua, sp. nov. 

 *Ch(clodon triciiicttis, sp. nov. 

 Sillayo ciliaia, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Anteiinarius coinmersonii, Lacepede. 

 Tlie following species are figured for the first time : — 

 Upeneas jjlenrostiyma, Bennett. 

 ApoQon iiorfolcensis, Ogilby. 

 Iniistins cacatua. 

 CluHodon tricinctus. 

 Monacanthus howensis, Ogilby. 



Anouilla reinhardtii, Steindaclitier. 

 Of the two common fresh- water eels of New South Wales, 

 Anguilla aiistralis, Rich., and A. reiiihardiii, Steind., the former 

 has been recorded from Lord Howe Island. I am now able to 

 include A. reinhardtii, an example having been forwarded by 

 Mr. Farnell to the Fishery Couimissioner.s, and by them presented 

 to the Museum. 



