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A specimen in the Macleay Museum is labelled '^ Labrichthys 

 rubictinda, Macleay, Tasmania," which, notwithstanding that 

 that species was said to come from King George's Sound, I 

 have no doubt is the type. It agrees with the description in 

 every detail, even in the colours of the scales and in having 

 two dark spots on the back, the second being indistinct and 

 situated on the free portion of the tail. Its length, however, 

 is onh' 8 J inches, or 8 J ^ to the extreme tip of the upper 

 caudal lobe, not 9 as stated. It is undoubtedlv identical with 

 the "Endeavour" specimens, and I would therefore regard 

 Tasmania as the correct locality of the specimen. 



The eight "Endeavour" specimens were taken at the 

 following stations : — 



Oyster Bay, Tasmania, 40-60 fathoms. 



Off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 40 

 fathoms. 



Twenty miles north-east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 68 

 fathoms. 



Family CARANGID^. 



(jENUS Trachmrus, Rafinesque. 



Trachurus deci.ivis, Jenyns. 



Yelloivtail, Horse Mackerel. 



Caranx declivis, Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, iii., 1842, p. 68, 

 pi. xiv. 



Two large specimens sixteen inches loijg were obtained off 

 the mouth of the Murray River, South Australia, in 20 

 fathoms, and another nearly eighteen inches long from the 

 Victorian coast. Two small ones are in the collection from 

 between Port Stephens and Newcastle, New South Wales, 

 -22-6o fathoms. 



Adult examples of this species have the last rays of the 

 dorsal and anal fins much enlarged and forming a semi- 

 detached finlet, thereby approaching Decapterus. This con- 

 dition can also be traced in young examples, but it is much 

 less striking than in the larger ones. 



Genus Caraxx, Lacepede. 

 Caranx platessa, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Trevally. 

 Caranx platessa, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 ix., 1833, p. 84; id., Jordan and Seale, Bull. U.S. Bur. 

 Fish., xxv. , 1905 (1906), p. 437. 

 Caranx georgianus, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., ix., 1833, p. 85. 

 Many young specimens were obtained off the east coast of 

 Flinders Island, Bass Strait. 



