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Show 1871.] IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 653 3. Our collection of fishes of the South-Australian region has been enriched by several presents made by the Trustees of the Museum at Sydney, and by Mr. Morton Allport of Hobart Town. They have yielded fresh evidence with regard to the surprising fact that quite a number of common European marine fishes which hitherto have never been met with between the Tropics reappear in temperate seas of the southern hemisphere (see the remarks on Clupea sprattus, p. 672). Other, smaller acquisitions need not be mentioned specially; and in the following pages I limit myself to diagnoses of those species only which appear to me to be undescribed, and to some remarks on a few known species. The descriptions are given in systematic order; but it may be useful to precede them with a list in which the species are geographically arranged. 1. GABOON. Hemichromis subocellatus, p. 666. Nanncethiops unitceniatus, p. 670. Mormyrus lepturus, p. 670. 2. PORT NATAL. Halidesmus scapularis, p. 668. 3. CELEBES. Anthias rhodopeplus, p. 654. chrysostictus, p. 655. Plectropoma anlhioides, p. 655. Apogon savayemis, p. 656. Priacanthus meyeri, p. 656. Pristipoma manadense, p. 657. Scbastes rhodochrous, p. 659. Cubiceps multiradiatus, p. 661. Peristethus liorhynchus, p. 663. Pseudophycis peregrinus, p. 669. Belone punctulata, p. 670. Engraulis bcelama (Forsk.), p. 671. Pceciloconger fasciatus, p. 673. 4. JAPANESE SEAS. Gobius elapoides, p. 665. 5. FEEJEE, TONGA, AND SAMOA ISLANDS. Apogon savayensis, p. 656. Biagramma obscurum, p. 657. Holocentrum microstoma(Gthr.), p.660. diploxiphus, p. 660. Acanthurus aterrimus, p. 660. Gobius leucostictus, p. 664. Platyglossus nigromaculatus, p. 666. - - notopsis, p. 666. Chilinus godeffroyi, p. 666. Anguilla obscura, p. 673. Murcsna tcenioides, p. 674. 6. COOK'S ISLANDS. Ambassis miops, p. 655.. Callionymus cookii, p. 665. Myxus leuciscus, p. 666. Hemirhamphus acutus, p. 671. 7. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Peristethus engyceros, p. 663. 8. NOETH-EASTEEN AUSTRALIA. Gobius platystoma, p. 664. Blennodesmus scapularis, p. 667. Tetrodon pleurostictus, p. 674. 9. QUEENSLAND. Chiloscyllium modestum, p. 654. 10. SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA. Histiopterus labiosus, p. 658. Platycephalus cinereus, p. 661. Gobius mucosus, p. 663. Patcecus subocellatus, p. 665. Clupea spr attus (L.), p. 672. Geotria allporti, p. 675. 11. CHILE. Urolophus chilensis, p. 653. Murcena chilensis, p. 674. U R O L O P H U S CHILENSIS. (Plate LIII.) Disk broader than long ; snout a little projecting ; tail longer than the disk. Disk smooth, but with spines along the median line, viz. three in a single series in the middle of the back, and two on the tail, in front of the serrated spine. No rudimentary dorsal fin. |