284 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



14 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales 

 cycloid on both sides of body; 75 to 86 in a longitudinal 

 series just above lateral line. Lateral line with a very 

 slight curve anteriorly. Dorsal 60-69; commencing 

 almost at extremity of snout ; anterior rays split distally 

 and partly free, remainder mostly bifid at their tips; 

 34th to 38th rays longest, 2 to 2| in length of head. Anal 

 41-47. Right pectoral with 11 or 12 rays (9 or 10 

 branched), a few scales on its basal part, length If to 2 

 in head. Anterior ray of right pelvic inserted below or 

 a little behind level of lower eye. Caudal with 3/12/3 

 rays; rounded. Caudal peduncle 1| to If times as deep 

 as long, depth 2 to 1\ in head. Length of intestinal tract 

 about If times that of fish. Ocular side brownish or 

 greyish, with or without irregular darker markings; 

 dorsal, anal and caudal fins often speckled with dark 

 brown; extremity of right pectoral darker; blind side 

 whitish. 



Hab. New Zealand; Australia (?). 



Described from eight examples, 215-340 mm. in total 

 length, including the types of the species. 



The locality of the type specimens is said to be 

 Australia (Gtinther), but this species does not appear 

 to have been recognised since by any of the Australian 

 ichthyologists. Kner recorded the species from Sydney, 

 New South Wales, but, according to McCulloch (Austral. 

 Zool. II, 1921, p. 46), this is certainly incorrect. It 

 seems probable that the locality of the types is incorrect, 

 and that this species does not occur in Australian waters. 



4. Rhombosolea tapir ina. 



[Melbourne Flounder, Southern Flounder, Greenback 



Flounder. ] 

 Rhombosolea tapirina (part), Gtinther, Cat. Fish., IV, p. 



459 (1862) ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 



VI, 1882, p. 130. 

 Rhombosolea flesoides, Gtinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(3) XI, 1863, p. 117; Waite, Rec. Austral. Mus., VI, 



1906, p. 197, pi. XXXV; Stead, Edible Fishes N. S. 



Wales, p. 104 (1908) ; McCulloch, Austral. Zool., II, 



1921, p. 46, pi. XIII; Waite, Fishes S. Austral., p. 



181 (1923). 



Pleuronectes? victoria?-, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vic- 

 toria, I, 1872, p. 168. 



