PISHES — WAITE. 97 



Family TETRAODONTID^.. 



LAGOCEPHALUS, Swainson. 



LAGOCEPHALUS LUNARIS, Moch <fc Schneider. 



Tetrodon lunaris, Bloch & Schn., Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 505. 

 Temm. it Schleg., Fauna Japon., Pisces, 1850, p. 277, pi. cxxii., 

 tig. 1. 



Stations 23, 26. 



On two occasions we trawled this species off Newcastle in 1 6 to 

 32 fathoms, thus adding it to the fauna of New South Wales. 

 Previously it had not been identified southward of Moreton Bay 

 in Queensland. 



The two examples are rather small, measuring 210 mm. -and 

 195 mm. respectively. They are to be identified with T. spadiceus 

 of Bleeker, characterised by the interorbital space and fore part 

 of the back being covered with spines, and the length of the head 

 less than its distance from the dorsal fin. Castlenau, identifying 

 an example in the Queensland Museum taken in Moreton Bay, 

 remarks* : — " the length of the head is more considerable than is 

 said in Dr. Giinther's description ; this fish certainly belongs to 

 Richardson's spadiceus from the Chinese and Indian Seas, and 

 may be different to the typical lunaris." 



AMBLYRHYNCHOTUS, Bihron. 



AMBLYRHYNCHOTUS OBLONGUS, Bloch. 



Tetrodon oblongus, Bloch., Ausl. Fisch., 1787, p. 4, pi. cxlvi., fig. 1. 

 Tetraodon oblongus, Bleek, Atlas Ichth., Gymnod, v., 1865, p. 62, 

 pi. iv., fig. 4. 



Stations 23, 51. 



Examples were taken on the sandy flats of the Newcastle and 

 Shoalhaven Bights in 15-19 fathoms. The species had been 

 previously recognised in Australian waters only from King George's 

 Sound, and is therefore for the first time recorded for the east 

 coast. 



* Castelnau— Proc. Wnn. Soc. N.S.W., iii., 1879, p, 401. 



