1869.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON NEW TASMANIAN FISHES. 429 
STEGOPHILUS NEMURUS. 
DB "ASS. 
Caudal fin deeply forked, the upper lobe produced into a filament. 
The distance of the origin of the dorsal fin from the root of the 
caudal is contained once and two-thirds in its distance. from the end 
of the snout. Dorsal fin midway between the root of the ventral 
and origin of the anal. Anterior part of the back spotted with 
brown. Tail with obscure, broad, dark cross bands. 
One specimen, 3 inches long. 
5. Contribution to the Ichthyology of Tasmania. 
By Dr. A. GUNTHER. 
The British Museum has lately received some large collections of 
Fishes from Tasmania. Most of the examples belong to species 
known, but afford much additional information of great interest with 
regard to geographical distribution, variation of colour, and size, so 
that I intend to describe them in detail in a memoir destined for the 
‘Transactions’ of the Society. For the present, I give the diagnoses 
of two undescribed species. 
ANTHIAS RICHARDSONII. 
10 3 
Dor A. 5 L. lat ca. 60. 
This species has been received with, and is most closely allied to, 
A, rasor; but whilst A. rasor has a subvertical ovate blackish spot 
below the lateral line, vertically below the commencement of the 
soft dorsal fin, and covered by the extremity of the pectoral fin, this 
spot is placed more backwards in 4. richardsonii; it is placed 
vertically below the fifth to ninth dorsal rays, below the lateral line, 
and of a horizontally ovate shape; the pectoral just reaches it. 
NEPTOMENUS DOBULA. 
D. 7a Avs 2| 5 Vert. 24, 
The length of the head is contained thrice and a half in the total 
length (without caudal), the height of the body four times and one- 
third. Scales small and deciduous. Pectoral fin not quite so long 
as the head. 
The type of this genus, N. drama, is described from a single 
stuffed example; the species characterized here belongs evidently 
to the same genus; and I find that it has 24 vertebree, and there- 
fore belongs to the Carangide. There are two very small spines in 
front of, and at a short distance from, the anal fin. 
Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited specimens of a Beetle (Taphroderes 
distortus, Westw.) from Natal, belonging to the family Brenthidz, 
