NOTES ON FISHES FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA — WAITE 211 
we have received the following species : — 
Gonorhynchus greyi, Richardson. 
Tylosurus ferox, Gunther. 
I am not aware that this species has been previously recorded 
from West Australia. Castelnau has described a species under 
the name Belone gavialoides ,* * * § which, judging from the description, 
and taking into account the relative position of the fins, is distinct 
from T. ferox . 
Trachurus deolivis, Jenyns. 
Colpognatiius dentex, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Gunther’s type of C. richardsonii ,t regarded by Boulengerj as 
synonymous with C. dentex , was obtained at Freemantle, at the 
mouth of the Swan River, wherein Mr. Woodward’s specimens 
were taken. Our examples are without markings of any descrip- 
tion, and this fact, taken in conjunction with the widely different 
colouration or ornamentation of the figures of Quoyand Guimard, § 
Richardson, || and Gunther, U indicates that the species is subject 
to great variation in colour and pattern. 
Chrysopiirys datnia, Forsk . 
Although tnis species does not appear to have been previously 
noticed from Western Australia, it was naturally expected that, 
having such an extensive distribution, it would sooner or later be 
thence recorded. It may now be said to occur on the whole of 
the eastern, northern, and western seaboards, but being so much 
more numerous in the tropics, we are scarcely likely to find more 
than a straggler or so on our southern shores. 
Odax richardsonii, Gunther. 
Ihe specimens received do not differ from examples taken in 
Port Jackson ; the dark markings on the body are very pronounced, 
and in this the examples are not unlike 0 . semifasciatus , Guv. and 
Val., from which the species is distinguished by the serrated pre- 
operculum and by the smaller number of scales above the lateral 
^ ne — seven in 0. richardsonii , fifteen in 0. semifasciatus. 
The serrations in some specimens are so slight as to be of 
doubtful specific value, yet Castelnau proposed for examples with 
serrated preoperculum, the generic name Neodax. 
* Castlonau— Proe. Zool. Sec. Viet., ii., 1878, p. 142. 
t Gunther — Proc. Zool. Soe., 1861, p. 391. 
X Boulenger — Brit. Mus. Oat. Fish, (2), i., p. 310. 
§ Quoy and Gaimard — Yoy. “Astrolabe/ 5 Poiss., pi. iv., fig. 2. 
|| Richardson— Zool. Ereb. and Terr., Ichth., pi. lvii., figs. 3-5. 
IT Gunther — Loc. cit., pi. xxxviii. 
