210 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



NOTES ON FISHES from WESTERN AUSTRALIA, and 

 DESCRIPTION OF a NEW SPECIES. 



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

 (Plate xxxvii.) 



By an arrangement with Mr. B. B. Woodward, Curator of the 

 Perth Museum, we have received a small collection of tishes 

 obtained, for the most part, in the Swan River, near Perth. 



No attempt has been made to catalogue the fishes of the 

 western coast of Australia, and indeed, with the exception of 

 isolated records, little has been done since the early voyagers 

 collected there. We have Gastelnau's " contribution,"* and the 

 following species received by us are recorded by this writer from 

 the neighbourhood of Freemantle. 



DoROSOMA EREBi, Gilnther. 



Hemirhamphus imtermedius. Cantor. 



As H. melanochir, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Sphyr^na NOViE-HOLLANDiiE, Gilnther. 



In addition to this species and S. ohtusata, it is possible that we 

 may have a third species in New South Wales, for the description 

 of S. novoi-hollandice, by Ogilby,t does not tally with that form. 

 In typical examples the ventral is inserted wholly in advance of 

 the first dorsal, while that writer describes the fin as being inserted 

 beneath the anterior half of the first dorsal ; he, however, figures 

 it (PI. xxx.) more in agreement with our examples. 



Therapon ellipticus, Eichardson. 



Mr. Woodward informs us that the specimens forwarded were 

 taken at Kimberley, in fresh water. 



Therapon caudavittatus, Richardson. 



Sparosomus auratus, Bloch and Schneider. 

 Noticed by Castelnau under the synonym Pagrus unicolor. 

 Platycephalus LiEViGATUS, Curvier and Valenciennes. 

 In addition to the foregoing and the introduced : — 

 Carassius auratus, Linncens, and 

 Carassius carassius, Lintuaus, 



* Castelnau— Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., 1873, ii., pp. 123 - 149. 

 t Ogilby— Edible Fishes N.S.W., 1893, p. 114. 



