CONTRIBUTION 
TO THE 
ICHTHYOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA. 
No. VII— FISHES OF NEW CALEDONIA. 
The animals of New Caledonia are generally very distinct 
from those of Australia, but I thought it might be useful to 
give here the little information I have been able to obtain on 
the fishes of that region, as it is probable that under parti- 
cular circumstances, most of them may be driven on the 
opposite coast of Queensland. All my knowledge of the 
ichthyology of this island is due to a collection that Mr. Adet, 
the French merchant of this city, was kind enough to make 
for me during a sojourn of a few months at Noumea. 
CHRYSOPHRYS NOVvE CALEDONI2E. 
It is with some doubt that I separate under that name, the 
specimen I have under my eyes, from the Sp. Berda, of Forskal 
and Euppel, which has only, till this time, been found in the 
Red Sea. Dr. Gunther has proved that it is by mistake that 
Cuvier and Valenciennes included this sort with the Sparus 
Hasta of Bloch, which is found all over the Indian Sea. 
The figure given by Ruppel applies perfectly with my sort, 
with the exception of the opercular spine, which is not 
marked on it, and the anal, which is shorter ; the number of 
the anal rays seems also different. 
The height is contained a little over twice and a quarter in 
the length to the central end of the caudal, or rather more 
than twice without that fin ; the head is three times and two- 
thirds in the last distance ; the eye is three times and two- 
thirds in the length of the head ; the snout has once and a 
