﻿FISHES.-MCCULLOCH. gr 



The thirteen specimens were trawled at the following 

 stations : — 



Off Cape Everard, X'ictoria, 70 fathoms. 



Twenty miles north-east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 68 

 fathoms. 



Disaster Bay, New South Wales, 45 fathoms. 



The genus Zeuopsis is commonly regarded as pelagic, but 

 this is obviously incorrect, though it would seem that some of 

 the species pass through their earlier stages near the surface. 



Genus Cvtti;s, G-unther. 



CVTTUS NOV/K-ZELAXDI.^, ArtllUf. 



(Plate ^■ii., tig. J, and hg. 20.) 

 Zens ?}ovce-zeIandice, Arthur, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvii., 1885, 



p. 163, pi. xiv., fig. 3. 

 Cyttus novce-zelandice, McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, XXXV., 1910, p. 307; id., Waite, Rec. Cantb. 

 Mus., i., 191 I, p. 190, pi. xxxii. 

 D. viii. 28; A. ii. 29 ; P. 11 ; \'. i. 6 ; C. 13; 1. lat. 83; 1. tr. 



9 + 47- 



Height r62 to i'68 in the length from the premaxillary 

 when the mouth is closed to the hypural. Head almost 3 in 

 the same. Eve verv large, 2*4 in the head and longer than 

 the snout. Interorbital width at its narrowest point i "4 in 

 the eye. Orbit defined above by a curved ridge which is 

 armed with microscopic denticulations and forms an angle 

 at either end with the rest of the orbital margin. Another 

 curved ridge, perforated with numerous pores, extends from 

 the origin of the lateral line to the anterior end of a triangular 





depression abo\ e the occiput, which receives the posterior 

 processes of the premaxillaries. All the other bones of the 

 head are ^■ery thin and ha\ e their edges smooth. When the 

 mouth is closed, the hinder margin of the maxillary is slightly 



