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5. Amblygobius PHALiENA (Cuvier). Recorded from Murray Island by 
McCulloch (Ibid., xxxvi, p. 347). 
6. Valenciennea longipinnis (Bennett). Previously recorded and figured 
by Waite from specimens collected by Hedley at Green Island, Cairns. (Rec. Austr. 
Mus., iv, p. 271, pi. xliii). 
A small but highly interesting collection was also received from Capt. 
McDonald, who had collected them at Thursday Island. The following species are 
worthy of inclusion here : — 
1. Tylosttrus caudimactjlatus (Cuvier). Not hitherto recorded from 
Queensland, the only other Australian record being 64 Port Darwin” by Macleay 
(Ibid., ii, p. 363). 
2. Polydactylus multibadiatus (Gunther). Two small polynemids differ- 
ing from all the other Australian members of the family in the forward position of 
the anal fin, which originates in advance of the soft dorsal. As they agree fairly 
well with Gunther’s description of the above species, I wrote to Mr. Tate Regan 
asking him to examine the type, a badly mounted specimen, as to this character. 
This he very kindly and promptly did, with the result that he wrote me that, so 
far as it w T as possible to judge from the state of the specimen, this was the ease. 
We may, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the rediscovery of this Chinese species, 
of which so little w T as previously known. 
3. Priopis mariaxtts (Gunther). Twe specimens ; thus extending its range 
so far north from the Mary River. 
4. Trichiurus haumela (Forskal). A beautiful specimen, which enables 
me to add this fish to the Australian fauna with certainty, previous records being 
open to doubt. 
Note on the Australian Trichiuri . — The first record of the occurrence of a 
Trichiurus in Australian waters was made by Macleay in 1878 (Ibid., p. 354), when 
he notices a specimen of T. savala collected by Spalding at Port Darwin ; three 
years later he adds T . haumela from “ Port Jackson and Newcastle (Ibid., v, p. 
524). This identification, however, is incorrect, Macleay being unaware of the 
presence of a third species on the coast of New South Wales. This fish, which is 
most erratic in its appearances, was subsequently described as T. coxii by Ramsay 
& Ogilby (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xii, p. 562), and to it Macleay’s T. haumela 
record properly applies. No further reference to these fishes is made in any Aus- 
tralian work until 1893, when Kent (Great Barrier Reef, p. 288) referred to specimens 
of both T . savala and T. haumela as having 44 been contributed to the Queensland 
Museum.” What is probably the former of these specimens is now on exhibition 
there and was obtained in Moreton Bay, but the specimen of T. haumela can not 
be found. 
