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9. P. gilntheri (G. iv, 507; DeVis, 1884, 879.) 

 Australia. 



10. P. tetriciis (G. iv, 116, not Rich.; L. biserialis Klunz.. 1872 ; (fig. E. ami T., pi. 5.5,/. 1) 



Tasmania, Australia (south). 



11. P. j)«ri7a (G. iv, 117). 



Australia (west). 



12. r. (jiimnogenxs (G. iv, 117, 507, u. sp; G., 18ij7 ; Steind., 18r)7). 



Australia, China. 



13. r. jxuictulatus (G. iv, 118, u. sp.). 



Australia (Swan River). 



Nimierons species, or at least specific names, were subsequently added 

 or confirmed, all being referred to Lahrichthys, except 7'. australis and 

 P. Richardsonii, (St., 186G.) 



P. /(/c(co/rt (Rich., 1840; Huttou. 1H73, 2G5). 



New Zealand. 

 P. epMppium (Gthr., 1863, 116). 



Victoria. 



The species subsequently discovered were chiefly described lii the 

 following periodicals and works : 



Sitzungsberichte der Akadeniie der Wissenschaften, (Wieu), by Steiudachner and 

 Klunziuger. 



Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria, by Cas- 

 telnau. 



Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, Victorian Catalogue, contaiuiug arti- 

 cle by Castelnau.* 



Comptes rendus de I'Academie des Sciences (Paris), by Sauvage. 



Proceedings of the Liuuieau Society of New South Wales, by Macleay, DeVis. Ram- 

 say, and Ogilby. 



Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, by Huttou. 



Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, by Johnston. 

 P. australis (Steind., 1866, 476). 



Pacific Ocean. 

 P. richardsonii (Steind., 1867, 332, I. N. vi, 26; provisional name for species de- 

 scribed as P. luculentus Rich var.) 

 Victoria. 



*The article of Castelnau is not mentioned either in the Zoological Rtcord or the 

 Archiv flir Naturgeschichte, and the references by Australian naturalists generally 

 give no indication as to the manner of publication. It a^jpeare in the following 

 work: Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. (Melbourne, 1875.) — Ofiicial 

 record, contaiuiug Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, 

 Reports and Recommendations of the Experts, aud Essays aud Statistics on the So- 

 cial and Economic Resources of the 'Colony of Victoria. — Published by authority of 

 the Commissioners. Melbourne : M'Carron, Bird & Co., .... MDCCCLXXV. 

 [8 vo., + liv -f 382 + viii, 255 -f 19 ^ LII -f v, 240 pp.] The ''Researches on the 

 Fishes of Australia" is separately paged (52 pp.), aud contains descriptfons (such as 

 they are) of many- supposed new genera and species. The newly named genera are 

 Keouijyhon (p. 4), Breviperca (p. 6), Neomesoprion (p. 8), Aida (p. 10), Xeolethrinus (p. 

 11), Neosillago (p. 16), Elhjrla (p. 21), Pseudohafrachiis (p. 24), Sicnophns (p. 26), Xe- 

 ogunncllus (p. 27), Xeohlennins (p. 28), Dumpieria (p. 30), Xeoatherina (p. 31), Torresia 

 {p. 36), Xeoodax (p. 37), Otlios (p. 43), Xeorliombiis (p. 43), Xeoplotosus (p. 45), Blanchar- 

 dia (p. 47). The descriptions are worthy of the neophyte's names. 



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