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base of the ventrals, and ends at a distance from the caudal 

 equal to about two-thirds the length of the head. Pectorals 

 pointed, the upper border the longest, but not so long as the 

 head, and extending slightly further back than the points of 

 the ventrals. Ventrals inserted behind the pectorals, and ex- 

 tending to a little more than half the distance to the vent, the 

 lateral line extending on to the tail. Total length of the 

 specimen, ISY^^iii- 



Canterbury, mouth of Eiver Avon. 



Art. XXXI. — List of the. New Zealand Fishes. 



By Professor F. ^Y. Hutton. 



'^Rcad before the Philosophical Institute of Cantcrbiinj, 6rd October, 



18S9.] 



During the eighteen years that have passed since the publi- 

 cation by the Geological Department of the Catalogue of the 

 Fishes of New Zealand, several active workers have been in 

 the field, wlio have added a number of additional species to om* 

 fauna ; also many errors in nomenclature have been cor- 

 rected, principally by Dr. A. Gunther, of the British Museum ; 

 and, in order to facilitate further progress, it seems to me to 

 be desirable to collect together the information we now pos- 

 sess. With this object in view I have drawn up the following 

 list, the arrangement followed being that of Dr. Gunther's 

 " Study of Fishes." I have not thought it necessary to give 

 complete references to all descriptions, but only those which 

 show the evidence for the species being included in the list. 

 In the references. Cat. means the " Catalogue of the Fishes 

 of New Zealand, 1872 ;" and vol. means the volume of the 

 " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute.'" An asterisk 

 prefixed to a reference indicates that a figure will be found 

 there. A note of interrogation prefixed to a species means 

 that it is doubtful whether it really occurs in the New Zea- 

 land seas. 



ELASMOBKANCHII. 

 Caecharidje. 



1. Carcharias brachyurus, Gunther; Catalogue, p. 75. 



2. Galeus aqstralis, Macleay, Cat. Australian Fishes, 



p. 290; G. canis, Cat., p. 81. 



3. Zyg^na malleus, Risso; Cat., p. 76; vol. 5, p. 271. 



4. MusTELUs ANTARCTicus, Guutli. ; -''Cat., p. 76; fig. 123; 



vol. 15, p. 219. 



