194 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAJf MU8ETTM:. 



latitude S. 27° 25', but the fauna there is in no way comparable 

 with that of Lord Howe Island, which is endowed with many 

 purely tropical forms. 



The temperate fishes are, in the main, those found on the coast 

 of New South Wales, while the tropical ones generally suggest a 

 Melanesian rather than an Australian origin. 



Several bathy-pelagic fishes have already been recorded from 

 the island ; we may mention Isistius, Brama, Gernpylus, and 

 Tetragonurus. Being dependent for novelties on residents or 

 visitors to the island, who, though kind and well meaning, can 

 never accomplish the results of a trained collector, our work of 

 building up a knowledge of the fauna is necessarily slow. 



If a small steamer, fitted up for dredging, could be chartered 

 for a few weeks, we should, I am confident, be able to add many 

 new and interesting forms both among fishes and invertebrates. 



The present contribution is based on material received at the 

 Museum by the kind offices of Mrs. T. Nichols and her daughters, 

 Mr.T.R.Icely,J.P., late Visiting Magistrate, Messrs. Wm. Nichols, 

 and J. B. Waterhouse, residents on the island, and the late Mr. VV. E. 

 Langley. 



The paper deals only with unrecorded species, two excepted, 

 namely: — Tradiinotus russelli, Cuvier and Valenciennes, and Chiro- 

 nemus marmoratus, Giinther, previously incidentically mentioned 

 in a publication not generally distributed. 



Including an unnamed Atopichthys, thirty-two species are re- 

 corded, of which four are described as new, namely : — 

 Amphijirion latezonatus. 

 Holacanthus cotispicillatus. 



,, semicinctus. 



Euchilomycterus quadradicatus. 

 The last-named is regarded as the type of a new genus. A new 

 generic name, Acaiithocauhis, is also proposed to replace Prionurus, 

 Lac^pede, pre-occupied. Of the remainder, the following are new 

 to the Australian fauna ; some have, however, been taken in 

 Torres Straits: — 



Leptocephalus cinerens, Riippell. 



Aulostovkus chinensis, Linna3us. 



Gernpylus serpens, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Decapterus sanctce-helenm, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Epinephelus fasciatus, Forskal. 



Thalassoma atteitense, Giinther. 



Platyglossus opercidaris, Giinther. 



Holacanthus tibicen, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Naseus unicornis, Forskal. 



Alutera monoceros, Osbeck. 



Ovoides meleagris, Lacepede. 



Parapercis cylindrical Bloch. 



