NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN FISHES — WAITi;. 195 



Some species, not recognised in Victoria since first described, 

 were retaken, and their claims to inclusion in the fauna (upon 

 which doubt had been cast), fully established. The Melbourne 

 Sole described as Rhombosolea bassensL^, Castlenau, is now placed 

 in the genus Pelto7-hamphu><. The name Sderopteryx is used 

 generically for Ophioe/in/is dpvisi, Ogilby. 



Additional species redescribed or furnishing material for some 

 remark are : — 



Gobivs imicosus, Giinther, S. Australia, Victoria, 

 N. S. Wales. 



* Dip/oc'fepis cardiitalis, Ramsay, Tasmania, 



* Rhombosolea J{esoidei<, Giinther, Victoi'ia, 



* BJp.nniiis tasinanianus, Richardson, Tasmania, Vic- 



toria, N. S. Wales. 



Stolephorus, Lacqiede, 1803. 

 Stolephorus robustus, OyiJbij, sp. 



Spratrlloides robt/stHS, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxii. 



1897, p. 64. 



This small Herring has not been previously recorded from 

 Victoriaii waters. I obtained several examples from Queenscliff 

 and it is pr(jbal)le that many more would have been secured if a 

 smaller meshed net had been used. 



Tliese southern examples have all the habit of .S'. dp/iedtidus, 

 Bennett, being of slender body, unlike typical examples of .S'. 

 robiiKtus. The specimens collected have had most of their scales 

 rubbed off in transit, but as far as can be ascertained these are 

 smaller and more numerous than in *S'. ddicafuhts, which feature 

 provides the readiest means of determination, if indeed the 

 species be distinct. 



Cheilobranchus, Richa7'dso7i, 1845. 



Cheilobranchus rufus, Madeay. 



(Plate xxxvi., fig. 1). 



Chilobrdvrhus rufus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, vi., 

 1881, p. 266. 



The length of the head is one-eighth of the total, or 2-3 in the 

 distance between the gill-opening and the vent, and that between 

 the end of the snout and the vent is 1-5 in the remaining por- 



