46- Kfxords of thk S.A. ■Museum 



NANNOPERCA AUSTRALIS Giinther. 



I'igniy T'erch. 



Naunoperca aiistralis Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1861, p. 116, pi. xix, fig. 2 (not 



good). Macleay, IVoc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v, i88i, p. 342, Ugilb}-, 



Cat. Fi.sh. N.S. ^^'ales, 1886. p. 14. Waitc, Mem. N.S. Wales Nat. Clul), 2, 



1904, p. 29. 

 fNannopcrca rivcvinac Macleay. Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S. \\"ales, v, 1881, p. 342, 



and ix, 1884, p. 10. Ogilby, loc. cit. \\'aite, loc. cit. 

 Paradnlcs leetus Klunzinger, Arch. Naturg. xxxviii, i, 1872, p. 21, and {I'liiciid. 



Icu'tiis) Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. \\'ien. Ixxx, i, 1879, pp. 349, 430. 

 Plate ii. fig. i. 



Sv>io)n'ii>\'. The identity of Farad iilrs lactus and Naiiiiopcrra aiistralis was 

 recognized by Klunzinger, notwithstanding several striking discrepancies between 

 the descriptions of the two. Macleay later regarded his A^. riz'criiiac as synony- 

 mous with P. laetiis. although according to his scale-counts their identity would 

 seem improbable : since, however, the type of his species is not now to be found, 

 his opinion must be accepted. 



Locs. Murray River. The s])ecimen figured is 63 mm. long, and was taken 

 near Narrandera, on the Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales. 



Family POMACENTRIDAE. 

 GLYPHISODON VICTORIAE Gunther. 



Glyphidodoii victoriae Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xi, 1863, p. 115. 



Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. \'ict., i, 1872, p. 146, Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. 



Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i. 1879, p. 398. Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales. 



vi, 1881. p. 68. Kent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Ta.sm.. 1886 (1887), pp. 123. 124. 



Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (2). ii. 1890. p. },2. Johnston. Proc. Roy. Soc. 



Tasm., 1890 (1891), p. 34. 

 HcUastcs lividiis Klunzinger. .\rch. Naturg.. xxxviii. i. 1872. p. 36. 



Plate ii. fig. 2. 



D.xiii, 17: A.ii. 15: P.20 : \'.i. 5: C.T5: L.lal.20: Sc.29. 



Depth I 76 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 3 -03 in the same : eye 4 t 

 and depth of caudal peduncle t -8 in the head. 



Body elevated, cotnpressed. the dorsal and ventral ])rofiles evenly arched: 

 interorbital space convex, about twice as wide as the eye: snout longer than the 

 eye, the nostril placed in about the middle of its length : greatest breadth of the 

 preorbital aliout three-fourths tlie width of the eye: maxillary reaching to below 



