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basal part, length If to If in head. Anterior ray of 

 right pelvic inserted behind level of posterior border of 

 lower eye. Caudal with 3/12/3 rays; slightly rounded 

 Caudal peduncle If to 1| times as deep as long, depth 

 2 to 2 in length of head. Length of intestinal tract 

 about 3 times that of fish. Ocular side brownish or 

 greyish ; some small white spots sometimes present in 

 young examples; extremity of right pectoral darker; 

 blind side whitish. 



Hob. New Zealand ; Auckland Is. ; Australia ( ?) . 



Described from fourteen specimens, 62430 mm. in 

 total length, including the type of the species and the 

 types of R. monopus. A skeleton has 31 (10 + 21) 

 vertebra?. 



This species has been recorded from Tasmania and 

 Victoria, but these records are probably incorrect. It 

 is doubtful whether it occurs in any part of Australia. 



3. Rhombosolea leporina. 



[Yellow-belly.] 



Rhomlosolea leporina, Giinther, Cat. Fish., IV, p. 460 

 (1862) ; Button, Trans. Proc. N. Zealand Inst, V, 

 1873, p. 268, pi. XI, fig. 83a ; Kner, Reise "Novara," 

 Zool. I, 5, Fische, p. 287 (1869). 



? Bowenia novce-zealandiae , Haast, Trans. Proc. N". 

 Zealand Inst., V, 1873, p. 277, pi. XVI. 



Rhombosolea flesoides, Huttou, Trans. Proc. N. Zealand, 

 Inst., VIII, 1876, p. 215. 



Rhombosolea millari, Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., I, 

 1911, p. 205, pi. XXXVII. 



Depth of body 2 to 2 in the length, length of head 

 3f to 4. Shape of body ovate. Dorsal profile of head 

 straight or a little convex. Blind side of head almost 

 entirely scaly. Snout longer than eye, diameter of which 

 is 1 times to twice interorbital width and 6 to 7f in 

 length of head. Maxillary extending to below anterior 

 edge of eye or not quite as far; length of lower jaw of 

 ocular side 3 to 3f in head. Lower pharyngeals about 3 

 times as long as broad, triangular, the inner edges in 

 contact for their entire length ; teeth arranged in a series 

 along each edge with a few teeth between these rows, 

 those of posterior edge small and pointed, remainder 

 larger, with blunt and sometimes flattened tips. 10 to 



