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the body as being greyish-white, or grey lead colour. In all the 

 fresh examples I have seen, yellow enters noticeably into the 

 colour of the ventral fur, and the almost blue colour of Water- 

 house's figure is certainly never seen in this species. The dark 

 frontal streak of Gould's drawing is intended to illustrate the 

 convergence of the hairs to the centre of the head, but there is no 

 colour band there as might be inferred. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FISH-FAUNA of LORD HOWE 



ISLAND. 



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

 (Plates XXXV. - xxxvii. ; and Figs. 1, 2). 



Since 1889, when the Fish-fauna of Lord Howe Island was first 

 published in collected form,* sundry additions have been recorded 

 by Mr. J. D. Ogilby and myself. The former in his latest con- 

 tribution writes f — "The present additions bring the number of 

 species recorded as inhabiting or visiting the shores of the island 

 up to one hundred and thirteen, with seven (or six) unidentified 

 forms." 



It was my intention to prepare a complete list of the known 

 Fish-fauna of the island, but I notice that Mr. Ogilby, in 1898, 

 also in the paper quoted, writes — "As it is, the list as it now 

 stands needs careful revision, but I hope within the next few 

 months to be in a position to lay before the Society a thoroughly 

 revised and enlarged catalogue of the fish fauna of the island." 

 Under these circumstances I will leave the field open to Mr. 

 Ogilby, and publish the following list of additions in order that 

 his "revised and enlarged catalogue" may include the Museum 

 records, not otherwise available to him. 



Washed by a warm southerly current, Lord Howe Island 

 supports a much more tropical fauna than is met with in lower 

 latitudes on the mainland. It lies in latitude S. 31° 33', and on 

 the west side possesses an extensive coral reef. On the mainland 

 no coral reef is found south of Strad broke Island in Queensland, 



* Ogilby— Aust. Mus. Mem., ii., 1889, Fishes, pp. 52-74. 

 t Ogilby— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii.. 1898, p. 731. 



