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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
NOTES on FISHES from WESTERN AUSTRALIA, and 
DESCRIPTION of a NEW SPECIES. 
By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Zoologist. 
(Plate xxxvii.) 
By an arrangement with Mr. B. B. Woodward, Curator of the 
Perth Museum, we have received a small collection of fishes 
obtained, for the most part, in the Swan River, near Perth. 
No attempt has been made to catalogue the fishes of the 
western coast of Australia, and indeed, with the exception of 
isolated records, little has been done since the early voyagers 
collected there. We have Castelnau’s “ contribution,”* and the 
following species received by us are recorded by this writer from 
the neighbourhood of Freeman tie. 
Dorosoma erebi, Gunther . 
Hemiriiamphus imtermedius, Cantor. 
As H. melanochir , Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Sphyr/ena NOViE-HOLLANDiiE, Gunther. 
In addition to this species and S. obtusata , it is possible that we 
may have a third species in New South Wales, for the description 
of S. novce-hollandia by Ogilby,t does not tally with that form. 
In typical examples the ventral is inserted wholly in advance of 
the first dorsal, while that writer describes the fin as being inserted 
beneath the anterior half of the first dorsal ; he, however, figures 
it (PI. xxx.) more in agreement with our examples. 
Therapon ellipticus, Richardson. 
Mr. Woodward informs us that the specimens forwarded were 
taken at Kimberley, in fresh water. 
Therapon caudavittatus, Richardson. 
Sparosomus auratus, Bloch and Schneider . 
Noticed by Castelnau under the synonym Pagrus unicolor . 
Platycephalus LiEViGATUS, Curvier and Valenciennes. 
In addition to the foregoing and the introduced : — 
Carassius auratus, Linnaeus , and 
Carassius carassius, Linnceus , 
* Castelnau — Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet., 1873, ii., pp. 123 - 149. 
f Ogilby — Edible Pishes N.S.W., 1893, p. 114. 
