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from tlae Bay of Islands. May and August are the smoking seasons in Wellington 
(N. Z,), where an enormous shoal occurred in July 1924. During the winter (May to 
October) the pilchard is found in deep water inlets, but in summer it prefers outer 
w'aters. Fish in roe have been noted from Tory Channel, N. Z., in November and at 
Seatoun in October, but November-December is the spawning time. A beach near 
Auckland was strewn with herrings in September 1909 and the “ Terra Nova ” 
Expedition collected small specimens, J to | inch long in September, 1911. These 
are the occurrences noted by workers in New' Zealand. 
The Australian Museum has specimens of the pilchard from the Auckland 
Islands, and from various localities in New' South Wales. Several large specimens 
were trawled in fairly deep w'ater near Montague Island in March 1929. Mr. Stead 
obtained three mature pilchards from the stomach of a flathead, traw'led in about 50 
fathoms off N. S. Wales, in February 1916. It is said that there are records of the 
pilchard in the Royal Commission of Food Supply N.S.W., 1912 Report, but this is 
not available to me. The pilchard is also very common in Tasmania, vast quantities 
being found in the George’s Bay district in August-November 1924. Professor Flynn 
observed that they grew to an average size of 4 or 4| inches about Christmas. 
Genus MAUGECLUPEA Whitley, 1932, 
Maugeclu'pea Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus. xviii. 6, April 20, 1932, p. 332. Orthotype, 
Clupea hassensis McCulloch 1911, from Bass Strait, Tasmania. 
MAUGECLUPEA ANTIPODUM (Hector). 
Clupea sprattus var. an-tipodum. Hector, Notes Edib. Fish, in Hutton, Colon. Mus. & Geol. 
Surv. Dept. (N. Zeal.) Publ. xviii, Feb. 1872, Cat. Fish N. Z., p. 133. Foveaux Strait, New 
Zealand. Also spelt antipodarum in Trans. N. Z. Inst, xi, May 1879, p. 572. 
Clupea uiulleri Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. Ixxx, 1, 18/9, p. 416. New Zealand. 
Clupea holodon Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xviii, July 1, 1916, p. 5. Stewart 
Island, New Zealand. 
Klunzinger ’s species, like Regan’s, is evidently a synonym of cintipoduni Hector. 
Family PLOTOSIDAE. 
Genus EXILICHTHYS, Whitley, 1933. 
Exilichthys Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus. xix, 1, Aug. 2, 1933, p. 65. Orthotype, Cnidoglanis 
midiceps Gunther. 
EXILICHTHYS NUDICEPS (Gunther). 
Cnidoglanis nudiceps Gunther, Rept. Voy. Challenger, Zool. i, 6, 1880, p. 49. Arafura 
Sea (“ Challenger ” Expod.). Type in the British Museum, figured by Weber and Beaufort, Fish. 
Indo-Austr. Archip. ii, 1913, p.'232, fig. 92. Id. Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus. x, 1928, p. 63. 
Ostophycephalus nudiceps, Ogilby, Pi’oc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxiv, Aug. 1899, p. 156. 
Id. McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v, 1929, p. 59. 
