FISHES—PHENOMENAL AND ECONOMICAL. 165 
States National Museum authorities, to whom we are indebted for the several 
perfected examples of the art now on view in the Central Hall of our own 
Natural History Museum. As a recent exponent of the perfection with which 
certain animal forms may be thus immortalised in paint and plaster, it may be men- 
tioned that Professor E. Ray Lankester’s exhibit at last year’s Conversazione of the 
Royal Society consisted of a couple of finely executed models of the New Zealand 
Lizard, Sphenodon punctatus, to which, on account of the soft, wrinkled character 
of its skin, it is almost impossible to render justice by any ordinary process of 
taxidermy. A diagrammatically arranged index which will allow of the ready identifi- 
cation of the many fish forms reproduced in this Plate, is herewith appended. The 
circumstance that the Barracouta, No. 2, occupying the central position in the top 
row, was, in the flesh, precisely three feet long, will afford a convenient key to the 
dimensions of the various species there portrayed. 
In addition to the Hobart and Silver Trumpeters, Latris hecateia and 
L. Forsteri, there are two or three other species of the same genus, one of which, 
L. ciliaris, is common in New Zealand, and is met with as far north as Sydney. 
A large but rare form that is occasionally taken in Tasmanian waters has been 
INDEX TO COLOURED PLASTER CASTS OF TASMANIAN FISH PHOTOGRAPHICALLY 
REPRODUCED IN PLATE XXVIII. 
1 2 3 
LEATHER JACKET. BARRACOUTA. LEATHER JACKET. 
Monacanthus sp. Thyrsites atun. Monacanthus sp. 
a 5 6 7 8 
PORCUPINE FISH. VELVET FISH. ROCK COD. FLATHEAD. FLOUNDER. 
; Chilomycterus jaculiferus, Holoxenus cutaneus. Pseudophycis barbatus. Platycephalus bassensis. Rhombsolea monopus. 
9 10 41 12 
HOBART TRUMPETER. COLONIAL SALMON. SILVER TREVALLY. AUS. DOREY. 
Latris hecateia. Arripis salar. Caranz georgianus. Cyttus australis, 
13 14 15 16 
MAGPIE PERCH. SEA PERCH. SEA CARP. SILVER TRUMPETER. 
Chilodactylus bizonarius, Chilodactylus macropterus, Chilodactylus Allporti. Latris Forsteri. 
17 18 19 
BLUE HEAD PARROT FISH. CAT FISH. HOBART TRUMPETER. 
Labricthys ceruleus. Kathetostoma levis. Latris hecateia. 
20 21 
ELEPHANT FISH AND EGG CASE. BUTTER FISH. 
Callorhynchus antareticus, Chilodactylus spectabilis, 
22 23 2a 25 
RED PERCH. ROCK GURNET. PARROT FISH. GARFISH. 
Anthias rasor. Sebastes percoides. Labricthys laticlavius, Hemirhamphus intermedius. 
