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of the latter given, the genus of the fish must remain for the present uncer- 

 tain, since in Solander's time the genus Sparus was made to include very- 

 various forms. 



55. Odax pullus (C. and V. xiv. p. 304). (Scarus pullus, G. Forster, ii. 



t. 202 ; J. R. Forster, MS. IV. 17, apud Schneider, p. 208.) 

 Inhabiting Queen Charlotte's Sound, and known there by the name of 

 " niarraree." 



56. Odax? vittatus (Annals, ix.). (Coregonoides vittatus, Solander, p. 1 



and 39 ; Callyodon coregonoides, Parkinson, ii. t. 24.) 



Two entries of this fish occur in the ' Pisces Australise,' the second being 

 an account of the differences between the old and young. It was taken at 

 Mataruhow. 



The following Labroids have been taken in the Australian seas. Labrus 

 tetricus (Zool. Tr.) ; L.fucicola (Zool. Tr.) ; L. psittaculus (Zool. Tr.) ; L. 

 laticlavius (Zool. Tr.) ; L. cya?iodus (Rich.ined) ; L.iris( Solander); Tautoga 

 melapterus(C.a.adV.) ; Cheilio lineatus (C.and V.) ; Julis lineolatus (C.andV.) ; 

 J. auricularis (C. and V.) ; J. notatus (Sparus, Solander); J. dringii (Rich. 

 Icon. Pise. 3. f. 1); Odax pullus (C. and V.); Odax algensis (Zool. Tr.) ; 

 Hoplegnathus conwayi (Zool. Tr.). 



Of the extensive family of Siluroidece, of which nearly 300 species are de- 

 scribed in the ' Histoire des Poissons,' not a single individual has been bi-ought 

 from New Zealand. Nor was it to be expected that many species should have 

 been found there, since most of the family are inhabitants of fresh water and 

 of the lower latitudes. In North America one species only is known to reach 

 the 55th parallel, and the only European species is partially diffused over 

 similar latitudes. The plotosus ikapor or lineatus (C.and V. xv. p. 412), a 

 widely spread inhabitant of the Indian and Polynesian oceans, descends to 

 the west coast of New Holland, and is the most southerly Siluroid which is 

 known to us. 



We have no Cyprinoid fish to enumerate among the productions of the 

 fresh waters of New Zealand, though it is highly probable that some will here- 

 after be brought from thence. The Leuciscus (Ptycholepis) salmoneus, which 

 is the Mugil salmoneus discovered by Forster at the island of Tanna, exists at 

 Port Essington, New Holland. A specimen brought from thence by Mr. 

 Gilbert has enabled me to ascertain that this fish is not an Elops, as Cuvier 

 has said in his ' Regne Animal ' (ii. p. 324). Solander notices briefly, in his 

 ' Pisces Australia?,' a Mugil lavaretoides, which is also referred to Elops in 

 the ' Histoire des Poissons ;' but the little that Solander says of the fish ap- 

 plies entirely to Mr. Gilbert's specimen of salmoneus, though his account is not 

 particular enough to establish their specific identity ; we may therefore quote 

 Solander's New Zealand fish, with some doubt, as 



57. Leuciscus ? lavaretoides. (Mugil lavaretoides, Solander, p. 15.) 



Esocnxffi. 

 5S. Galaxias alepidotus (Cuv. Reg. An. ii. p. 283). (Esox alepidotus, 

 G. Forster, ii. t. 235 ; J. R. Forster, MS. II. 62, apud Schneider, p. 395.) 

 Taken with the hook in the lakes and rivulets which flow into Dusky Bay. 

 The aborigines name it " he-para." Cook's sailors called it " rock-trout." 

 Another species, most probably the truttaceus of Cuvier, inhabits the rivers 

 of Van Diemen's Land, where it obtains the appellation of " the trout." 



59. Galaxias fasciatus (Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 73.). 



This species was discovered by Dr. Dieffenbach in the river Thames. 



