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spine f the diameter of eye. Dorsal VIII, 19-20. Anal 14 15. Pectoral f or the 

 length of head. Caudal rounded or subtruncate,. Caudal peduncle longer than deep. 



Island of St Paul. 



KNER'S and SAUVAGE'S descriptions are based on specimens of 9 or 10 inches. 



(6) Bovichthys decipiens, sp. n. (PI. IX. fig. 1.) 



Depth of body 4 in the length, length of head 2 : J-. Diameter of eye 3J in the 

 length of head, interorbital width 6J. Interorbital space nearly flat ; maxillary 

 extending to below anterior ^ of eye ; opercular spine a little shorter than eye ; 8 gill- 

 rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal VIII, 19. Anal 14. Pectoral | the 

 length of head. Caudal peduncle longer than deep. Body with cross-bars; spinous 

 dorsal with a blotch posteriorly ; dorsal and pectoral with series of spots ; caudal barred. 



A specimen of 41 mm. from Cook's Straits (Hector) is very similar in appearance to 

 B. variegatus. 



(7) Bovichthys psijchrolutes. 

 Giinth., Cat. Fish., ii. p. 250 (1860). 



Depth of body 4 in the length, length of head 3. Diameter of eye 3 1 in the length 

 of head, interorbital width 5. Interorbital region nearly fiat ; maxillary extending to 

 below anterior ^ of eye ; opercular spine as long as eye ; 8 gill-rakers on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Dorsal VIII, 20. Anal 14. Pectoral \ the length of head. Caudal 

 subtruncate. Caudal peduncle longer than deep. Bluish-olive ; fins pale. 



Here described from the type, a specimen 38 mm. in total length, from S. W. of 

 the Antipodes Islands (50 S., 170 W.). 



(8) Bovichthys roseopictus. 

 Hutton, Trans. N. Zeal. I?t., xxxvi., 1903, art. ix. 



Depth of body 5J, length of head 4| in total length. Diameter of eye 3 in length 

 of head, interorbital width 3^. Top of head smooth, with two small ridges. Dorsal 

 VIII, 18 (?). Anal 13 (?). Pectoral as long as head. Caudal apparently truncated. 

 Back dark olivaceous brown, sides and abdomen silvery ; a pink spot at base of operculum 

 and 5 bright rose-pink bands on each side. 



New Zealand; known from a single specimen of 4fi mm. picked up on the beach at 

 Sumner, Canterbury. 



Family _'. NOTOTHKNIID/E. 



Differ from the Bovichthyidae in the toothless palate, the united gill-membranes, 

 and in having all 3 radials on the hypocoracoid (fig. 3, 2 and 3). Vertebra) 45-56 

 (16-20 + 25-35). 



In the typical genera the skeleton is well ossified, and the rather strong ribs and 

 epipleurals are inserted on well-developed parapophyses, or only the first one or two 

 are sessile. In Pleuragramma the skeleton is weak, with the hones thin and papery, 



(ROY. soc. KDIN. TRANS., VOL. xi.ix., \>'i~.) 



