FISHES FKOM WKSTERN ALSl'KALIA — WAITE. i I 



OdaX RICIIAKDSONU, (iuntlivr. 



Odax /niUus, Cuvier and VHlencieiines, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv., 

 1S89, p. 304, pi. ccccviii. (not Forster). 



Julif f driiKfii, liichardson, Icon. Pise, 1843, p. (i, \A. iii., fijLf. 1. 



Odax richarthnnii, Giinther, Cat. Fish. Biit. Mus.. iv., 1S6-, j). 

 241. 



I have previoiisly recoidtHl this sj^^cies from Western Australia; 

 the examples now in hand were taken oft' Houtman's Ahiolhos. 

 It may be pointed out that those authors, who, would accejit 

 a drawing as the basis of a desci'iption, should use Richardson's 

 name Odax diirKjii in preference to the later one of Giinther. 



The drawing is very defective and led Richardson, against liis 

 better jutlgment, to ascribe the fish to the genus J«//.s instead of 

 Odax ; he was impelled to this course mainl}^ from comparison 

 Avith a Chinese drawing ! 



(Jlistiiops cyanomelas, Richardson. 



OUsthojis cijanomdas, Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., {'!), vii., 

 1851, p. 291. 



/,o(".— Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Heteroscarus filamextosus, (JastchuiH. 



Ihteroscarns ulanientoioai, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., i., 

 1872, p. "24.5. 



Lor. — Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Caraxx SPECIOSU.S, FnrsJ.al. 

 JScdiiiber sfieciosnx, Forskal, Desci'. Anim., 177-"), ]>. .'")4. 

 L(ir. — Fremantle. 



Caraxx armatus, Forskal. 

 Sciana ariitata, Forskal, Descr. Anim., 177-5, j). .")3. 

 Ldc. — Fremantle. 



'ri{A('IIIXOTi;s BAlLLOXIl, I MCrjJCili'. 



i '(isioiimnis bailhmii, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii., ISOi', p. U'.), 

 pi. iii., fig. 1. 

 I.tir. — ]\randurah. 



