210 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



PsEUDOMONACAXTHUS, Bleeker, 1866. 



PSEUDOMONACANTHUS CxRANULATUS, ShatV, sp. 



Balistps f/ramilafa, »Shaw, in Wliite's Voy. N.S.Wales, 1790, p. 295, 

 pi. "(p. 254), fig. 2. 



This is another species wliose existence in Victorian waters is 

 regarded by Mr. A. H. S. Lucas as doubtful, no one having, 

 apparently, identified it since Klunzinger first recorded it from 

 Port Phillip. I obtained specimens in the Melbourne Fish 

 Market. 



Spileroides, Dnmeril, 1806. 



Sph^roides richei, FreminriUe, sp. 



Tetraodon richei, Freminville, Nouv. Bull. Philom., ii., p. 250, 

 pi. iv., fig. 2. 



This species is included in the Victorian fauna, apparently only 

 on the authority of Klunzinger.'' I found it to be not uncommon 

 at Queenscliff" where it was taken by nreans of the seine net. 



Castelnau " observed two sorts [of Tefrodon] on the shores of 

 Hobson's ^ Bay," namely : — T. hamiltmii, Richardson, and T. 

 hispidiis, Linnfeus. It is quite evident however, from his desci'ip- 

 tion, that the species recorded under the lattei* name is really 

 referable to >S. richei, and that in all probability T. hispidus does 

 not occur in Hobson's Bay. tS. hamilkmi was found to be 

 extremely common, and apj^ears to attain larger dimensions than 

 in Port Jackson. 



Klunzinger— Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien., Ixxx., 1879, p 425. 



