The shore-fishes of New Zealand are not so distinct from those of south-eastern Australia as to deserve to be placed in a separate district. Beside the genera which enter this zone from the Tropics, and which are more numerous on the Australian coast than on that of New Zealand, and beside a few very local genera, the remainder are identical. Many of the South Australian species, besides, are found also on the coasts of New Zealand. The principal points of difference are the extraordinary development of Monacanthus on the coast of South Australia, and the apparently total absence in Australia of Gadoids, which in the New Zealand Fauna are represented by six genera. _Shore-fishes of the South Australian district._ South Australia and Tasmania. New Zealand. *Callorhynchus (antarcticus). 1 1 Galeus (canis) 1 1 Scyllium ... 2 1 **Parascyllium 1 -- Crossorhinus 1 -- Cestracion ... 2 1 Mustelus (antarcticus) 1 1 Acanthias (vulgaris and blainvillii) 2 1 Rhina 1 -- Pristiophorus 1 -- **Trygonorhina (fasciata) 1 1 Rhinobatus 1 1 Torpedo -- 1 Narcine 1 -- Raja 3 1 Trygon (Urolophus) 3 2 **Enoplosus 1 -- Anthias (richardsonii) 1 1 Callanthias 1 -- Serranus x[29] -- Plectropoma 4 -- **Lanioperca 1 -- **Arripis 3 1 Histiopterus 1 -- Erythrichthys -- 1 *Haplodactylus 2 2 Girella 4 -- **Tephræops 1 -- Pagrus 1 1 *Scorpis 2 1 **Atypichthys 1 -- **Trachichthys -- 1