RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
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I have compared three Western Australian examples with four 
others from New South Wales, one from Victoria, and twelve from 
Lord Howe Island, and find them to be identical. They all differ 
from Richardson’s fig^ure, however, m the proportional lengths of 
the head and pectoral fins. My series includes specimens from 
86-255mm. long. The pectorals are from 2^-2f in their dis- 
tance from the ventrals, not 35, as figured. The head varies 
from 4^-4f in the length to the hypural ; in the figure it is 
almost six times. The insertion of the dor.sal fin also is farther 
forward in my specimens than shown. It must be noted, however, 
that Stead figures New South Wales examples, the proportions of 
which approach Richardson’s specimens, while they also agree very 
well with Hector’s figure of one from New Zealand, which Ogilby 
has called G.forsteri. 
It therefore seems to me that the length of the body is very 
variable, as in many other elongate fishes, and that forsteri must be 
regarded as a synonym o{ gveyi. If this be accepted, the species is 
recorded from South-Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, 
Tasmania, New Zealand, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, 
and the Kermadecs. 
Specimens of G. parviiiianus (Ogilby),* of the same size as others 
of G. greyi, have very much smaller heads and pectoral fins, while 
the scales are cycloid instead of ctenoid. Waite^ considers the one 
to be merely the young (larval form) of the other, and the close 
association of the two over a wide geographical area lends consider- 
able support to the hypothe.sis. Specimens of the parviiiianus form 
are recorded from the following localities : — Lord Howe Island and 
Narrabeen, New South Wales; Kertnadec Islands®; Moreton Bay, 
Queensland. Another is in the Australian Museum from Manly, 
near Sydney. 
The type, which is the largest specitnen known, is 88mm. long. 
1 Ogilby. Ann. (.)ueen,sl. Mus., No. 10, igii, p. 34. 
1 Waite. Rec. Austr. Mus., V., 1904, p. 147, plate xvii., Eg. 3 
8 Waite. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst , XLTI., igio, p. 374. 
