From among the specimens of fish that I have had the
pleasure of contributing to the Tasmanian Museum within
the last few months, and which have hitherto been unrepresented
in that institution, I would direct brief attention on
this occasion to the form known to the local fishermen by
the name of the " Butter Fish." This species is evidently
identical with the type taken near Port Jackson, and first
described by Macleay in the Proceedings of the Linnaean
Society of New South Wales, p. 366, 1882, under the title of
Chilodactylus mulhallii. The probable identity of that species
with the Tasmanian Butter Fish has been already recognised
by Mr. E. M. Johnston in the appendix to his Catalogue of
Tasmanian Fishes, published in the same year
