^0 1^EC0RDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



In R. H. Major's "Early Voyages to Terra Australis^',' 

 we read : — " It would seem that another of the outward bcjund 

 «hips referred to in the Dutcli recital, as visiting the coasts of 

 New Hollanfl, was commanded by Edel, and tlie land tliere 

 ^liscovered, which was on the west coast, was named the land of 

 Edel. From Campbell's edition of Harris's voyages we learn tliat 

 this discovery was made in 1619." 



PSEUDOLABRUS TETHICUS, /licJuirdsoU. 



Lahnm tetn'cKs, Ricliardson, Proc. Zool. 8oc., 1840, p. 25 ; 

 Voy. "Ereb. and Terr.", Fislies, 18-18, p. 126, pi. Iv., tig. 1. 



Lahrirhtliijx. hostocldi, Castlenau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., ii., 1873, 

 p. 137. 

 The examples forwarded from Mandurah are unquestionably 

 identical with that described by Castlenau. The lower caudal 

 ray is long equally with the upper one, and though I do not find 

 that the vertical fins have the fine blackisli edge described by 

 Oiinther, the black spot at the upper pectoral base is present. In 

 Hichardson's figure the ventral is insei'ted too high on the body 

 j^o that the distance between its base and that of the pectoral is 

 not sufficiently great. The pectoral is illustrated as having a 

 rounded margin, in our examples it is sinuous, with the upper 

 rays mucli the longer. As the drawing is structurally incorrect 

 in respect to the ventral, we may doubt its accuracy in respect 

 to the pectoral and caudal also. 



PsEUDOLABRUS fJUEXTHEKI, BlfcLrr. 



PfieHtliilahnis (fiientheri, Bleeker, Versl. ]\Ied. Kcjn. Akad. Weten., 

 xiv., 1862, p. 126. 

 Loc. — Fremantle. 



Harpe vulpixa, Hic/iardson. 

 'Ccssi/j/hux ntliiiniis, Richardson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1850, p. 71. 

 Ldc. — Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Ophtiialmolepis lixeolatus, (■tirier <(■ ]'alfnci(')i]ies. 

 Jnlis linedlatiis, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiii., 

 1839, p. 436. 

 /.(*(•. — Houtman's Abrolhos. 



1^ Major. — Early Voy. to Terra Austr., 1859, p. Ixxxvi. 



