THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XI. JULY 1843. LXIII. — Contributions to the Ichthyology of Australia. By John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., &c, Inspector of Hospitals, Haslar. [Concluded from p. 428.] Leuciscus (Ptycholepis) salmoneus. Mugil salmoneus, J. R. Forster, MS. iv. 14. apud Schneid. G. Forster, No. 237. Mugil lavaretoides, Solander, Pise. Austr. p. 15. ? No. 29. Mr. Gilbert's list. This fish is stated to be in general an inhabitant of deep water, and rarely seen within the harbour of Port Essington, though the natives occasionally spear it close in shore. Mr. Gilbert's specimen was obtained at Point Smith. The exist-ence of this fish in the collection is important, as it serves to rectify a mistake in the e Regne Animal/ ii. p. 324, respecting a species discovered at the island of Tanna by the Forsters. Cuvier's expression is, " L'Elops de la mer des Indes est V Argentina machnata de Forskal, et le Mugil salmoneus de Forster, Bl. Schn. 121, quoiqu'il ne lui donne que quatre rayons branchiaux, je m'en suis assure par sa figure. C'est aussi lejinagow, Russell, 179, &c." Forster's figure measures a foot and a half, within an inch of the length of our speci-men, which it exactly represents, with the single exception of the caudal fin being a trifle smaller. The four gill-rays are correctly drawn, and show that the fish cannot be ranked in the Clupeoid family ; and in fact neither the figure nor the specimen has, even excluding the great dissimilarity of the number of the gill-rays, more than a distant resemblance to the Elops jinagoiv of Russell. The following brief notice of a New Zealand fish occurs in the * Pisces Australia? ' : — " Mugil lavaretoides. Piscis dorso e caeruleo-virescens (uti in Harengo), inferne argenteus. In occipite supra et paulo pone oculos area magna ex argenteo sordide virescens, quasi subpellucida. Iris ex argenteo-flava; pupilla parva nigra. Pinnsc ex albido-cinerascentes. Habitat Tolaga." (p. 15.) Though there is nothing in this extract to point out the genus of the fish it alludes to, yet, as both the specific appellation of lavaretoides and the tints Ann. $ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. xi. Suppl. 2 K
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