26 ON NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES 
question, except in respect to color, mine being of a dark 
steel blue above, whereas Day describes his as being “‘ brown 
superiorly.” The original specimens came from the coasts 
of Sind and Beluchistan, but Day mentions one in the 
British Museum from South Australia. They attain a 
length of twenty feet. 
Note a:—In September, 1906, [received from Mr. T. F. B. 
Mullin the jaws of a shark captured in Table Bay by one of 
his employees, who had recently arrived from South Africa, 
having sailed direct from Capetown to Brisbane. On 
examination these proved to belong to a cestraciont shark 
belonging to the Heterodontus philippi group. As I am 
unaware that the family Heterodontide has as yet been 
recorded from the seas of the Cape,* and as it is extremely 
unlikely that the Australian species should range so far 
westward, I propose to distinguish the South African form 
as Heterodontus bone-spet. 
Note b. :—Mr. J. T. Jamison, of Woody Point, having 
kindly obtained for me some of the fishes on which Macleay 
founded his Atherinosoma jamesonit I am_ reluctantly 
obliged to announce their identity with Pseudomugil signafer, 
Kner.t 
* Shortly after receiving the specimen I wrote to the Curator of the 
South African Museum on the subject but have not as yet received an 
answer; 23rd June, 1908. 
+ Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, 1884, p. 171: Bremer River. 
t Reise Novara, Fisch. p. 275, pl. xiii, fig. 5, 1867: Sydney. 
