PISHES — UAIIK. 110 



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P8EIJD0PHYCIS r.ACCHUS, Forsler. 



Australian Cod. 



G adits bacchiis, Furst., Descr. Anim., Ed. Liclit., 1844, p. 120. 

 Lota breviuscida, Rich., Voy, Ereb. &, Terr., Fish., 184G, p. Ol, 

 pi. xxxviii., fig. 1. 



Stations 24, 25. 



This species was twice obtained, both hauls being contiguous to 

 and off Newcastle, the most northern range yet recorded. It 

 '.vas obtained in 21-48 fathoms. An allied species (F. barbaius, 

 Gihith.) is, according to McCoy, commonly caught with a line all 

 the colder months of the year in Port Philip Bay on rocky reefs 

 in five or six fathoms of water. 



Family PLEURONECTID^. 



PARALICHTHYS, Girard. 



Three species of this genus were obtained, namely, F. arsius, 

 P. novce cambrice and P. tenuirastrion. Of the first named 

 nothing need here be said ; it is an easily recognised species and 

 the records may be taken as accurate. While on board I -recog- 

 nised one other species only, namely, P. multimaculatus^ obtained 

 at the following Stations : — 



1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, 39, 41, 43, 44, 



46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58. 



Quite recently (December, 1898) Ogilby has pointed out that 

 our commonly regarded P. onidtimaculatus is a distinct species 

 for which he proposes the name P. novce cambrice. An examina- 

 tion of the "Thetis" Paralichthys shows that apart from P. arsius 

 the bulk of the specimens taken belong either to P. novce 

 cainbi'ice or to an und escribed species which I herein name 

 P. tenuirastrum. My difiiculty is therefore tliis : I am 

 unable to state, with exceptions, by which of the two species 

 below named each of the above quoted stations is represented. 

 Observations, however, indicate that while P. novce ca,mbrice is a 

 shallow water form frequenting the sandbanks and mudbanks 

 close in-shore and at the mouths of the rivers, P. tenuirastrum is 

 found only in deep water, say from 20 fathoms downwards. 



