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are even more commonly used than tlieir English cognomens. The contractions 

 syn. ' ' and ' ' ref . ' " appended to some of the entries denote that further synonomy 

 or references will be found in the publications so indicated. Slight differences 

 in spelling names in the synonomy liave not necessarily been observed ; for 

 example, separate, entries are not made for (lieiloddctijlufi and ('hilodactylns. 

 The dates supplied are, so far as it has Ix'cn possilile to ascertain 

 them, those of actual publication ; for example, the Kepoi't • of the British 

 Association for the year 1842 was published in 1843; .references to species 

 recorded in this volume are therefore dated 1843. 



The catalogue has l)een reprinted, or rather duplicated, for the State 

 Department of Fisheries and Game, with identical pagination and date of 

 publication, the only deviation from the original being the substitution of the 

 special title page, issued with the copies printed for the Department. 



One cannot, of course, study the fishes of any given area without knowing 

 what has been done elsewhere, l)ut for present purposes it must suffice to 

 indicate the principal systematic worlds that have been published in Australasia. 



The completion, in 1870, of Dr. Albert Giinther's monumental work(^) 

 provided a stimulus for the preparation of local catalogues. 



New Zealand. The first to appear was Captain F. W. Hutton's catalogue ( •^) 

 issued in 1872, followed, in 18{)3, by Dr. Theodore Gill's "Comparison of 

 Antipodal Faunas" (^). In 1904 Hutton produced another list C^). The 

 latest published catalogue, issued in 1907, is "A-Basic Li.st of the Fi.slies of New 

 Zealand," by Edgar R. Waite (»). 



Australia. Sir William Macleay's "Descriptive Catalogue of Australian 

 Fishes" (•^) was pu))li.shed in 1880, 1881, and was closely modelled on Giintliei-"s 

 work, but original observations and descriptions-were introduced. 



Tasmania. The fishes of Tasmania were included in Macleay's catalogue, 

 above mentioned, but in 1883 they were separately listed by R. M. Johnston, under 

 the title "General and Critical Observations on the Fishes of Tasmania" (i"), 

 which list, as in the case of some of the other works recorded, was later revised. 



New South Wales. In 1886 J. Douglas Ogilby (H) published the first 

 catalogue restricted to the fishes of the State. In 1904 Waite issued a list under 



(4) Gunther, Cat. Pish. Brit. Mus., i-viii, 1859-1870. 



(5) Hutton, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with diagnoses of the species, 1872. 



(6) Gill, Nat. Acad. Sciences, Wash., vi, 1893. 



(7) Hutton, Index Faunae Novae Zealandiae, 1904. 



(8) Waite, Rec. Cant. Mus., i, 1907, 1912. 



(9) Macleay, Proe. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v, 1880; vi, 1881; ix, 1884. 



(10) Johnston, Pap. and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1883, 1891. 



(11) Ogilby, Catalogue of the Fishes of N.S.Wales with their inineipal synonyms, 1886. 



