ichthyological items.— mcculloch. 59 



Family EXOCGETID.^. 

 Genus CYPSELURUS, Swainson. 



CYPSELURUS (EXONAUTES) CRIBROSUS, Kner. 

 (Plate VII.) 



Exoccetus unicolor ? Cuv. & Val., vel crihrosa, Kner, Reise " No vara," Zool., i., Fische, 1867, 

 p. 325. (Not E. unicolor, Cuv. & Val.) 



Exocoelus dovii, Ogilby, Mem. Austr. Mus., ii., 1889, p. 71. (Not E. dovii. Gill.) 



Exonautes rondeletii, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v., 1904, pp. 156 and 195. (Not E. rondeletii, Cuv. 



& Val.) 

 Exonautes unicolor, Jordan, Study of Fishes, 1905, i., fig. 226, and ii., p. 213. (Not E. unicolor, 



Cuv. & Val.) 

 Cypsilurus unicolor, Jordan & Seals, Bull. U. S. Fish. Bur., xxv., 1906, p. 209, fig. 12. (Not 



E. unicolor, Cuv. & Val.) 



Exonautes fulvipes, Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxi., 1908, p. 8. 

 Exonautes cribrosus, Ogilby, loc. cit., p. 13. 



Two sx^ecimens, 232-235 mm. long from the snout to the middle caudal rays, 

 only differ from the description of C. cribrosus in having longer pectorals, which 

 reach almost to the base of the caudal. According to Kner, they only extend to 

 the anal in G. cribrosus, but as he compared that species with C. unicolor and 

 C. rondeletii, both of which are long-finned species, it is probable his " Anale" is a 

 misprint for " Caudale." 



I have compared them with the type of C. fulvipes from Lord Howe Island, 

 and find them identical, while the fish figured by Jordan as C. unicolor is also appa- 

 rently the same species. 



When fresh, these two specimens were deep ultramarine blue above and silver 

 below ; the pectorals are dark without lighter cross-bands, but their margins and 

 lowermost rays are pure white ; the ventrals are light-coloured, the rays being either 

 a little dusky, or white with darker margins ; caudal with lighter margins, the lower 

 lobe a little darker than the upper. The pectoral fins reach either to the base of 

 the caudal or only to the end of the dorsal ; the ventrals also vary slightly in 

 length. The anal may be as long as or shorter than the dorsal, and both fins may 

 have either eleven or twelve rays each. 



Loc— OS Port Hacking, New South Wales, 26th July, 1915. 



Family vSOLEID^. 



Genus ASEPAGGODES, Kaup. 



ASERAGGODES HAACKEANA, Steindachner. 



Solea {Achirus) haackeana, Steindachner, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1883, p. 195, and Sitzb. Akad. 



Wiss. Wien, 1 XXX viii. i., 1884, p. 1104, pi. i., fig. 3. 

 Solea (Aseraggodes) textilis, Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), i., 1886, p. 6. 



A comparison of the tj'pe of Solea textilis with iSteindachner's description 

 and figure of S. haackeana shows that they represent the same species. The former 

 is described as having the lower eye slightly in advance of the uj)per, but this is 

 incorrect. 



This species belongs to the genus Aseraggodes, having no pectoral fins, the 

 ventrals subequal and free from the anal, and the vent on the median line of the body. 



