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Additions to the Fish-fauna of lord Howe island. 



No. 5.(i) 



By Allan R. McCulloch, Zoologist, Australian Museum, 



and 

 Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Director, South Australian 



Museum. 



[Contribution from the Australian and South Australian 



3/ use inns.] 



[Read September 14, 1916.] 



Plates XL. to XLIII. 



Since the '"Catalogue of the Fishes of Lord Howe Island'' 

 was published, (2) a number of new and otherwise interesting 

 species have been forwarded by residents of the island. 

 Some of these are dealt with in the following pages, together 

 with a small collection which was recently obtained for the 

 South Australian Museum by Mr. A. M. Lea during a col- 

 lecting expedition to Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. 

 We have also again examined some specimens of which 

 the earlier identifications appeared incorrect, and submit 

 additional notes upon them. 



Much of this material has been forwarded at intervals to 

 the Australian Museum by Mrs. Thomas Nichols, who has 

 contributed so much to our knowledge of the island fauna. 

 Other striking species were secured by Mr. P. R. Pedley. 

 who is also interesting himself in the fauna of the island. 



Family LEPTOCEPHALIDAE. 

 Genus Congermuraena, Kaup. 



Congermuraena, Kaup. : Cat. Apod. Fish. Brit. Mus._, 1856 r 

 p. 108 (C. ha.benatus, Richardson); Ogilby: Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, xxiii., 1898, p. 284. 



This genus apparently differs from Leptocephalus only 

 in having granular instead of sharp vomerine teeth, and in 

 having the muciferous system of the head rather more deve- 

 loped. The dorsal fin originates well forward above the head 

 or just behind the vertical of the pectoral fin, but this con- 

 dition is not a generic character, since the fin commences 

 equally far forward in some species of Leptocephalus. 



(i) For No. 4 see Waiter Rec. Austr. Mus., v., pt. 3, 1904, 

 p. 135. 



(2) Waite: Joe. cit., p. 187. 



