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APPENDIX. 



LUTIANUS PULVIFLAMMA. 



(Page 15.) 



We have lately received a fine specimen from Cape Hawke, which 

 measured sixteen and three-fourths inches. 



SCATOPHAaUS MULTIFASCIATUS. 



(Page 36.) 



Prom an examination of several specimens obtained in the Sydney market 

 since our description was written, we are now convinced that our Scatophagus 

 differs specifically from that figured by Richardson and Griinther. The name 

 will, so far as we are at present able to decide, have to stand as Scatopliagus 

 cetatevarians, De Vis ; we, however, take this opportunity of recording our 

 protest against the practice of manufacturing specific names so utterly 

 unmeaning as this. 



CAEANX TEACHURUS. 



(Page 77.) 



On page 78 we quote a passage from the Report of the Royal Commission, 

 for the accuracy of which we were unable to vouch ; we are, therefore, happy 

 to be able to state that the authority therefor is Dr. Giinther, who says : — 

 " The large Medusse on our" i.e., the British, " coast are almost always accom- 

 panied by young fishes. On the south coast I found them to be Scad, one 

 large Medusa off'ering a temporary home to more than fifty of these young 

 fishes, which were from two to three inches long." (Voy. CJiallenger, XX , 

 p. ). 



SCOMBER PNEUMATOPHORUS. 

 (Page 93.) 



In the description of this Mackerel, the following sentence occurs ; — 



"Diameter of eye 1'40-1'60 in the interorbital space, which is 



flat"; it should be "interorbital space flat, 1'33-1"60 in the interorbital 

 space." 



During the months of May and June, 1893, large shoals of fine adult 

 Mackerel appeared in the various indentations of our coast in the metropo- 

 litan and neighboring districts ; these fishes were entirely devoid of ova, 

 but were in magnificent condition, and were, we consider, quite equal in 

 flavor to any British-caught Mackerel (»S^. scomber) ; in these examples the 

 great thickness, rotundity, and fleshiness of the Australian Mackerel, as 

 compared with that of S. scomher, were extremely noticeable. The average 

 size of the individuals composing these shoals was between twelve and 

 thirteen inches, but some examples were quite an inch larger. It is also 

 to be remarked that these shoals are on the coast at midwinter, not 

 midsummer as usually reported. 



