104 MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



liberated in a dam, whieh eDiinminieates with the Brisbane River. On returning 

 from a visit to New Zealand I recommenced the work, and on the 28th of May 

 liberated eighteen in the Eno2:p:era Reservoir. Twent.v-one were taken to 

 Warwick on the 31st of July and put in the Condamine. On the 29th of August 

 sixteen were liberated in the waters of the Upper Coomera. Two were on the 

 same day placed in a pond at the Botanical Gardens. "^■' T have records of several 

 specimens from the Pine and Coomera Rivers, of one from the Enoggera Dam, 

 and of one from the Condamine having been killed. It is nuich to be regretted 

 that, after all the trouble and expense which has been incurred to transplant these 

 unique fishes to new homes, they are relentlessly destroyed when opportunity 

 offers. It may be useful here to remind my readers that these fishes are now pro- 

 tected by law, and that their destruction is. therefore, a punishable offence. Such 

 as are caught should at once be returned to the water. In this case, however, 

 Mr. Whalley, its captor, informs me that the fish was taken in salt water at 

 the mouth of the river ; when first seen it was lying outside the net, and appeared 

 to be sick and unable to help itself, so that he lifted the net and pushed it 

 under with an oar: evidentlv its condition was due to the salinity of the water. 



ADDENDA. 



torpkdixid.t:. 



HYPNOS SUBNIGER Dumeril." 

 Through the courtesy of Mr. J. Hirst Stevens, Inspector of Fisheries, the 

 Queensland Museum has acquired a very fine female example of this electric ray, 

 which formed one of the exhibits in the Fisheries Court of the National Show, 

 1918, and was an object of much curiosity und no little scepticism — as regards its 

 shock-giving proclivities — to thousands of interested sight-seers. It was captured 

 by seine net at Cape ]\Ioreton by Mv. George Crouch and party, and measures 

 572 iiini. Iroiri the tip of the snout to that of the tail. This is the fourth recorded 

 Queensland occurrence, the others being''^ a, a young female, labeled Moreton 

 Bay, belonging to the Old (Collection of the Queensland Museum; h and c, an 

 immature i)air, male and rniialr, liMwlcd liy the Endeavoui- in 13 fathoms on fine 

 dark sand off South Hill. 



carangid^. 



APOLECTUS NIGER (Hln,h).'= 



During August tlir Quccnsl.-nid .Museum receix'ed a Kne specimen of this 



fish, measuring IWO mm. in total length and weiglnng slightly over five jjounds. 



Foi- this noble addition 1o oui' marine fauna 1 have again to thank the a<'um(ii of 



the officers of the State Fish Market who, recognizing that it was a novelty, at, 



=» See nl8<> — B^iMcrcift. Pnic. Rey. Sue. Quceii.sl., x.\iii, IIMi. p. 2.JI *. il.id., xxx, 1!)18 



■'» Rev. & Mag. XmA.. IH.'>2, p. 27!l. 



*' Hho Ogifby, Mom. QiieeiiHf. Mu»,, v, l!IMi, p. x'-i. 



" Slromati'UH nhjir BIneli, .Xiisl. Kiseli., xii, p. '.i:(, pi, ceocxxii. 



