STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ISSUES McCULLOCH. 167 



Glapea richnioiidid, Macleay, Proc. Liun. Soc. N.S. Wales, iv., 

 1879, p. 380; and vi., 1881, p. 259. Id., Ogilby, Cat. 

 Fish. N.S.Wales, 1886, p. 56. 



The original notice of Meleffa uovre-hollandice is very brief, 

 and tlie details given differ somewhat from those of the 

 common fresh -water Herring of New South Wales. It will 

 therefore be necessary to examine the types in the Paris 

 Museum before their identity can be established, but until 

 this is done, we can conveniently follow Giinther in accepting 

 the name }iova'-hollandi(:e for our species. 



This Herring is so far known only from the coastal rivers of 

 New South Wales. '^ It occurs in small schools in the Hastings 

 River, and is most plentiful in the faster-running waters be- 

 low the numerous "falls "or rapids. It rises readily to a 

 small artificial fly. Specimens secured in this way during the 

 latter part of March, 1916, and measuring about eight inches 

 long, were found to contain well-developed milt and roe. 



The specimen figured measures 177 mm. from the snout to 

 end of the middle caudal rays, and was taken in fresh water 

 in the Hastings River. 



Family PLESIOPID^ 



G-enus Trachinops, Giinther. 



Trachinops cacdimaculatus, McCoy. 



Tracliinops caudimacidatiis, McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., Dec. xx., 

 1890, pi. cxciv. Id., Hall, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1912, 

 p. 83. 



Trachinops tceniatus, Hall, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1911, p. 32 

 (not T. tceniatus, Giinther). 



^ Kent included the names C.novce-hollandice and C.richmondi in a list 

 of Queensland fishes (Gt. Barrier Eeef, 1893, p. 370), but further proof 

 of the occurrence of this species in the northern State is i-equired. Mr. 

 J. Douglas Ogilby informs me that he has been unable to obtain any 

 evidence of its existence there, and is of the opinion that it does not 

 extend beyond the New South Wales border. Castelnau's record of 

 Meletta novcv-hollandice from Victoria (Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., i., 1872, 

 p. 189) properly applies to Hyperlophus vittatus, — see p. 163 



