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•species nia^ he easily distinguished by tlie 'width of the internarial region, 'which 
in armatus is less than half the length of the nostril, in gramdatiis about two 
thirds of the same. 
RAJID.E. 
I can not agree- with i^rof. Garman in his identification of the Australian 
Skates. lie places H. australis Macleay-" in the synonymy of E. lemprieri 
Richardson, and E, scahra Ogilby-*^ in that of E. nasnta Solander.^^ In my 
opinion I)oth E. australis and E. scabra are valid species, while E. lemprieri is 
hardly separal)le from R. nasula. 
ISOSPONDYLI. 
ELOPID.P. 
Some years ago iSh\ Tate Regan ])ub]ished “A Revision of the Fishes of 
the Genus Elapse in which he descrit)es as new two sjiecies E. kaivaiensis and 
E. ausiralis. From an examination of the specimens in the Queensland and 
Amateur FisherimaFs iMusoums, I am convinced tliat the characters on Avhich 
Regan depends for the separation of the two forms are unstable, and that 
E. ausiralis should, therefore, l)e reduced to ,a synojiym of E. hawaiensis. 
Typical examples of both forms occur in iMoreton Bay. 
DOROSOMATID^. 
DOROSOMA COME (Richardson). 
About lS4b Ri('hardson desciibed the Perth Herring’’ of the Swan 
River as Chatoessus come/" whicli name Gunther altered to C. crebi^'^ in 1868; 
Castelnau added C. ricluirdsoniE‘^ in 1873, in the belief that the Bony Bream” 
of the i\rurra 3 ^ River System differed fi*om the w'istern fish; not content with 
this Zietx described the Central Australian form from the i\IcDonnell Ranges as 
C. hornid'^ None of these three later names have any standing. True, Russell 
in 1803®“’ published a figure of an Indian species over the Hindustani name 
^'Kome”; true also that Richardson mistook his AA'est Australian fish for 
Russell’s, but I fail to understand how that vitiates the validity of Richardson’s 
Proc, Tiinii. JSoe. N. S. Wales, viii, ftr. 4, 21 Pcb. 1884, p. 461. 
Zool. Erebus & Terror, ii, 1845, \k 34, pi. xxiii. 
Catal. Rulivjt'li. Fisli. Aust. Mus., 1888, j). 17. 
Solander HSH., in AHUler and llenle, Plagiost., 1841, p. 150. 
''Wtnn. it Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) iii, -Jan. 1909, pp. 37-40. 
^-Zook Erebus tt IVrror, ii, 1845, lelitli., ]>. ])1. xxxviii, ligs. 7-10. 
Mils. (Jatal. Eisb., vii, 1868, 4o7. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. Vic., ii, 1873, p. 144. 
^'Mlep. Horn Exped., ii, 1896, p. ISO, j)!. xvi, tig. 6. 
Fisli. Anzagiqaitain, ii, 1803, p. 76, p]. cxvi (as Cliipea tJirissa Liniia3us). 
