REGALECUS GLESNE — WAITE. 
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REGALECUS GLESNE , ASOANIUS.— An ADDITION to 
the FAUNA of NEW SOUTH WALES. 
By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Zoologist. 
In his article — “On a species of Regalecus or Great Oar-fish, caught 
in Okain’s Bay,”* * * § H. O. Forbes mentions that the example there 
recorded is the tenth known from New Zealand waters, the records 
being as follows: — (1) Nelson, Oct. 1860; (2) Jackson’s Bay, 
1874 ; (3) New Brighton, May 1876 ; (4) Little Waimangaroa 
Beach, 1877 ; (5) Cape Farewell, 1877 ; (6) Moeraki, 1881 ; (7) 
Moeraki, June 1883 ; (8) Otago, June 1887 ; (9) Nelson Harbour, 
September 1890; (10) Okain’s Bay, May 1891. 
Two examples have been recorded from Australian seas. McCoy f 
figures and describes under the name Regalecus banksi, Cuvier, a 
specimen taken in May 1878, between Victoria and Tasmania. 
The second occurrence was near the Tweed River, in Queensland 
waters, and C. W. De Vis publishes a description of the fish under 
the new name Regalecus master sii. j In his Catalogue§ Macleay 
includes Regalecus gladius , Cuv. & Val., with the remark, “ said 
to have been seen on the Tasmanian Coast. Johnston, possibly 
on this authority, places it in his list of Tasmanian species. || The 
example described by Ramsay as Regalecus jacksoniensis 11 is really 
a Trachypterus. 
I have now to record a third Australian example. On August 
12th last, a very fine specimen was discovered by a fisherman 
cast up on Shark Beach, within Port Jackson. It was obtained 
by Mr. Fitzwilliam Wentworth, of Grey cliff, Vaucluse, who pre- 
sented it to the Trustees. 
Examples of the genus have never been obtained perfect, due 
to the extreme fragility of their members. The portions missing 
in our specimen were the lower parts of the head, including the 
branchiostegals, the cephalic and nuchal crests, one of the ventral 
filaments, and the end of the caudal. The body was cut almost 
in halves, by, it is presumed, a boat : otherwise it was in fair 
* Forbes — Trans. New Zeal. Inst., xxiv., 1891, p. 192. 
f McCoy — Prod. Zool. Viet., Dec. xv.> 1887, pi. 145. 
X De Vis — Proc. Roy. Soc. Qcl., viii., 1892, p. 109. 
§ Macleay — Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., \i., 1882, p. 55. 
|| Johnston — Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1890, p. 34. 
V Ramsay — Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., v., 1881, p. G31, pi. xx. 
