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Show 1869.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON NEW TASMANIAN FISHES. 429 STEGOPHILUS NEMURUS. D. 8. A. 6. Caudal fin deeply forked, the upper lobe produced into a filament. The distance of the origin of the dorsal fin from the root of the caudal is contained once and two-thirds in its distance from the end of the snout. Dorsal fin midway between the root of the ventral and origin of the anal. Anterior part of the back spotted with brown. Tail with obscure, broad, dark cross bands. One specimen, 3 inches long. 5. Contribution to the Ichthyology of Tasmania. By Dr. A. GUNTHER. The British Museum has lately received some large collections of Fishes from Tasmania. Most of the examples belong to species known, but afford much additional information of great interest with regard to geographical distribution, variation of colour, and size, so that I intend to describe them in detail in a memoir destined for the ' Transactions' of the Society. For the present, I give the diagnoses of two undescribed species. ANTHIAS RICHARDSONII. D. |. A. I L. lat ca. 60. This species has been received with, and is most closely allied to, A. rasor; but whilst A. rasor has a subvertical ovate blackish spot below the lateral line, vertically below the commencement of the soft dorsal fin, and covered by the extremity of the pectoral fin, this spot is placed more backwards in A. richardsonii; it is placed vertically below the fifth to ninth dorsal rays, below the lateral line, and of a horizontally ovate shape; the pectoral just reaches it. NEPTOMENUS DOBULA. D. 7 [ -£5. A. 2 11. Vert. 24. The length of the head is contained thrice and a half in the total length (without caudal), the height of the body four times and one-third. Scales small and deciduous. Pectoral fin not quite so long as the head. The type of this genus, N. brama, is described from a single stuffed example; the species characterized here belongs evidently to the same genus; and I find that it has 24 vertebrae, and there^ fore belongs to the Carangidee. There are two very small spines in front of, and at a short distance from, the anal fin. Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited specimens of a Beetle (Taphroderes distortus, Westw.) from Natal, belonging to the family Brenthidae, |