2 Records of the S.A. Museum 



increasing onr knowledge of the sul)jeet. Workers on the fish fanna of South 

 Australia, present or prospective, will in the course of their reading come across 

 species accredited to South Australia that do not appear in this catalogue. The 

 Zoological Record, for example, for the year 187'2, compiled by Dr. Cxiinther, 

 furnishes several such instances. Tn that year Klunzinger(M published a paper 

 under the title, ' ' Zur Fisch fauna von Siid-Australien. ' ' A glance at the localities 

 supplied shows that the translation should have beiMi Southern Australia, but Giin- 

 ther rendered it as Soutii Australia, wliich has, of course, a definite and restricted 

 meaning. All the localities given by Kluuzinger ai-e Victoi-ian, hence the species 

 therein listed, unless otherwise su])ported, are not to be included in the fauna of 

 South Australia. Giinther also used South Austi-alia in a similar sense in his 

 own writings, and species therefor included b)- others do not appear in this 

 catalogue. Such, for example, is M(l(inih((phcs nigrorls. which was defined in a 

 paper bearing the title "On New Species of Fishes from Victoria, South 

 Australia" (2). 



It is Avell known that many of th(> speci(^s named by Castelnau are ill-founded, 

 but as the descriptions are for the most part meagre, the recognizable ones often 

 inaccurate, and the types, if existing, not accessible, there is little hope of 

 ascertaining the status of several such sj^ecies named by this author. 



Illustrating- Count Castelnau 's method of taxidermy. 



It may be of interest to describe the method employed by Count Castelnau 

 to preserve the larger of his specimens. One sid(> of the fish was skinned and, 

 the rather more than half skin, was tacked on to a piece of board, cut more or 



(1) Klunzinger, Arch. f. Naturg., xxxviii, 1872, p. 17-47, pi. ii. 



(2) Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xi, 1863, p. 115. 



