RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM 
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Family CARANGIDAE. 
TRACHINOTUS RUSSELII, Cuvier 
and Valenciennes ? 
Trachynoius russellii, Day, Fish. India, 1878, p. 233, pi. LI, b, fig. 3. 
Trachiiiotiis rtisselli, Stead, Ed. Fish N.S.Wales, igo8, p.29, pi. LXII. 
D.VII. 24 ; A. II. 1 . 20. Head 3.53, depth 2.24 in the length to 
the hypural. Eye a little shorter than the snout, 4.3 in the head. 
Maxillary reaching to below the anterior portion of the pupil. 
Pectoral 1.3, ventral 2 in the head and reaching to the vent. Dorsal 
lobe a little shorter than the base of the soft portion of the fin ; anal 
lobe longer, longer than the base of the fin. Caudal lobes, 
measured from the hypural, almost equal to the height of the body; 
2.26 in the length. An indefinite dark spot above the origin of the 
lateral line followed by four others placed just above the line, the 
last very indistinct. Dorsal and anal lobes dark as are the outer 
margins of the caudal. 
One specimen, 265 mm. long, from Bernier Island. 
An examination of the specimens of T. russelii available to me 
indicates considerable variation in this species and particularly in 
the depth of the body, length of the fin-lobes, etc., but the West 
Australian example has a larger head and more obtuse snout that 
others from Port Jackson and Lord Howe Island. 
Ogilby has suggested ^ that the records of T. russelii and T. 
baillonii, Lacepfede, from Australia require verification. It is of 
interest to note, therefore, that I have collected the latter at Murray 
Island in the Torres Strait, while I cannot separate Port Jackson 
and Lord Howe Island examples from T. russelii. 
Family BLENNIIDAE. 
BLENNIUS TASMANIANUS, Richardson. 
Bletutius tasmaniamis, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., VI., 1906, p. 205, pi. XXXVI., 
fig. 5. Id.. Hall, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasra., 1902, p. i. 
Seven examples of this extraordinarily variable species from 
Fremantle, do not differ from some Tasmanian specimens in the 
Australian Museum. Length 47-77 mm. 
I Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld,, XXI, 1908, p. 15. 
