Art. II. — A Systematic Census of Indigenous Fish, hitherto 

 recorded from Victorian Waters. 



By A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B. Sc. 



[Eeail April 6tb, 1889.] 



Introduction. 



The classification followed in this Census is that adopted by 

 the Hon. Sir William Macleay in his " Descriptive Catalogue 

 of Australian Fish." It is, in the main, that of Dr. Giinther, 

 as elaborated in his "Catalogue of Fishes of the British 

 Museum." 



To each species is appended : — (1) The name of the author 

 who, either originally described it, or who gave the specific 

 name finally accepted, and an exact reference to the work in 

 which the description or denomination first appeared, with 

 the date of publication. (2) References to the more important 

 synonyms, in cases where it was thought any ambiguity 

 might exist. (3) A reference to the figure in case of those 

 fish which have been figjured. Where a fish has been figured 

 more than once, usually only the latest or most accessible 

 figure is recorded. The most important of these illustrations 

 are the figures in the Plates of Professor M 'Coy's "Prodromus 

 of Victorian Zoology." (4) The localities from which the 

 species have been obtained, as far as known with precision, 

 (5) The vernacular name as used in Victoria. Those 

 species of which only single specimens have been obtained 

 appear in parentheses, as do any others of whose occurrence in 

 Victorian waters there is any doubt. Amongst these last, I 

 have included all the species described or labelled as coming 

 from Hobson's Bay or Port Philli[) by Dr. Klunzinger, in the 

 "Archiv. f Naturg. xxxvii," 1872, since it seems probable that 

 some South Australian fish have been confused with others 

 sent to the Stuttgart Museum from Victoria. It seemed 

 wiser to incorporate in the Census the species as given by so 

 considerable an authority as Dr. Kliinzinger, but questions 

 of local distribution can only be satisfactorily settled by 

 resident local workers, and it remains for evidence to be 

 forthcoming to vindicate Dr. Kliinzinger's Victorian records. 



