1871.] 



IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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3. Our collection of fishes of the South-Australian region has been 

 enriched by several presents made by the Trustees of the Museum 

 at Sydney, and by Mr. Morton Allport of Hobart Town. They 

 have yielded fresh evidence with regard to the surprising fact that 

 quite a number of common European marine fishes which hitherto 

 have never been met with between the Tropics reappear in tempe- 

 rate seas of the southern hemisphere (see the remarks on Clupea 

 sprattus, p. 672). 



Other, smaller acquisitions need not be mentioned specially ; and 

 in the following pages I limit myself to diagnoses of those species 

 only which appear to me to be undescribed, and to some remarks 

 on a few known species. The descriptions are given in systematic 

 order ; but it may be useful to precede them with a list in which 

 the species are geographically arranged. 



1. Gaboon. 



Hcmichromis subocellatus, p. 663. 

 Nannathiops unitceniatus, p. 670. 

 Mormyrus lepturus, p. 670. 



2. Port Natal. 

 Halidesmus scapularis, p. 668. 



3. Celebes. 



Anthias rhodopeplus, p. 654. 



chrysostictus, p. 655. 



Plectropoma anthioides, p. 655. 

 Apogon savayemis, p. 656. 

 Priacanthus meyeri, p. 656. 

 Pristipoma manadense, p. 657. 

 Sebastes rhodochrous, p. 659. 

 Cubiceps multiradiatus, p. 661. 

 Peristethus liorhynehus, p. 663. 

 Pseudophycis peregrinus, p. 669. 

 Belone punctulata, p. 670. 

 Engraulis bcelama (Forsk.), p. 671. 

 Poscilocongcr fasciatus, p. 673. 



4. Japanese Seas. 

 Gobius elapoides, p. 665. 



5. Feejee, Tonga, and Samoa 

 Islands. 



Apngon savayemis, p. 656. 

 Diagramma obscurum, p. 657. 

 Holocentrummicrostoma(Gthr.),p.QQO. 



diploxiphus, p. 660. 



Acanthurus atcrrimus, p. 660. 

 Gobius leucostictus, p. 664. 



Platyglossus nigromaculatus, p. 666. 



notopsis, p. 666. 



Chilinus godeffroyi, p. 666. 

 Anguilla obscura, p. 673. 

 Murmna tcenioides, p. 674. 



6. Cook's Islands. 



Ambassis miops, p. 655. 

 Callionymus cookii, p. 665. 

 Myxus leuciscus, p. 666. 

 Hemirhamphus acutus, p. 671. 



7. Sandwich Islands. 

 Peristethus cngyceros, p. 663. 



8. North-Eastern Australia. 



Gobius platystoma, p. 664. 

 Blennodesmus scapularis, p. 667. 

 Tetrodon pleurostictus, p. 674. 



9. Queensland. 

 Chiloscyllium Tnodestum, p. 654. 



10. South Australia and Tasmania 



Histiopterus labiosics, p. 658. 

 Platycephalus cinereus, p. 661. 

 Gobius mucosus, p. 663. 

 Pafwcus subocellatus, p. 665. 

 Clupea sprattus (L.), p. 672. 

 Geotria allporti, p. 675. 



11. Chile. 



Urolophis chilensis, p. 653. 

 Murcena chilensis, p. 674. 



Urolophus chilensis. (Plate LIII.) 



Disk broader than long ; snout a little projecting ; tail longer than 

 the disk. Disk smooth, but with spines along the median line, 

 viz. three in a single series in the middle of the back, and two on tin- 

 tail, in front of the serrated spine. No rudimentary dorsal fin. 



