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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
latitude S. 27° 25', but the fauna there is in no way comparable 
with that of Lord Howe Island, which is endowed with many 
purely tropical forms. 
The temperate fishes are, in the main, those found on the coast 
of New South Wales, while the tropical ones generally suggest a 
Melanesian rather than an Australian origin. 
Several bathy-pelagic fishes have already been recorded from 
the island ; we may mention Isistius , Brama , Gempylus , and 
Tetragonurus. Being dependent for novelties on residents or 
visitors to the island, who, though kind and well meaning, can 
never accomplish the results of .a trained collector, our work of 
building up a knowledge of the fauna is necessarily slow. 
If a small steamer, fitted up for dredging, could be chartered 
for a few weeks, we should, I am confident, be able to add many 
new and interesting forms both among fishes and invertebrates. 
The present contribution is based on material received at the 
Museum by the kind offices of Mrs. T. Nichols and her daughters, 
Mr.T. R. Icely, J.P., late Visiting Magistrate, Messrs. Wm. Nichols, 
and J. B. Waterhouse, residents on the island, and the late Mr. W. E. 
Langley. 
The paper deals only with unrecorded species, two excepted, 
namely: — Trachinotus russetti , Cuvier and V alenciennes, and Chiro- 
nemus marmoratus , Giinther, previously incidentically mentioned 
in a publication not generally distributed. 
Including an unnamed Atopichthys , thirty-two species are re- 
corded, of which four are described as new, namely : — 
Amphiprion latezonatus. 
H olacanthus conspicillatus. 
,, semicinctus. 
Euchilomycterus quadradicatus. 
The last-named is regarded as the type of a new genus. A new 
generic name, Acanthocaulns , is also proposed to replace Prionurus , 
Lacepede, pre-occupied. Of the remainder, the following are new 
to the Australian fauna ; some have, however, been taken in 
Torres Straits: — 
Leptocephalus cinereus , Riippell. 
Aulostomas chinensis , Linnseus. 
Gempylus serpens , Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Decapterus sanctce-helence , Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Bpinephelus fascialus , Forskal. 
Thalassoma aneitense , Gunther. 
Platyglossus opercularis , Gunther. 
H olacanthus tibicen , Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Naseus unicornis , Forskal. 
Alutera monoceros ) Osbeck. 
Oroides meleagris , Lacepkde. 
Parapercis cylindrical Bloch. 
