314 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. XXVIII. — Notes on some Neiv Zealand Fishes, with 

 Description of a Neiv Species. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., Curator of the Canter- 

 bury Museum. 



\_Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th November, 



1895.'] 



Plectropoma huntii, Hector. 



A specimen of this fish has been sent to the Canterbury 

 Museum by Mr. Joshua Kutland, who obtained it from Queen 

 Charlotte Sound. He says it is very rare, and that it lives 

 in holes among rocks, feeding on shrimps. Sometimes it 

 comes to the surface of the water and lies on its side for a 

 considerable time. The fin formula differs slightly from that 

 given by Sir James Hector of the specimen from the Chatham 

 Islands. It is as follows : — 



B. 7; D. i§; A. f ; L. lat. 46. 



Total length, 8|-in. There are villiform teeth on the jaws, 

 palatines, and vomer, but none on the tongue. 



Chironemus spectabilis, Hutton (Ghilodactylus). 



This species has teeth on the vomer, and should therefore 

 be placed in Chironemus. 



Agriopus peruvianus, Cuv. and Val. 



Distinguished by having a small spine before each orbit. 

 There are two specimens in the Museum collection, from 

 Banks Peninsula. 



Trachyichthys trailli, Hutton. 



This species is figured in " Challenger " Reports, vol. xxii., 

 pi. 55, fig. A. 



Seriolella punctata, Forster; Descript. Anim., p. 140 {Gas- 



terosteus); Seriolella bilineata, H.\itton. 



I have no doubt but that this is the long-lost fish of 

 Forster. The mistake is due to the peculiar genus into which 

 Forster put his fish, and from the absence in the colony of any 

 copy of his drawing. 



Evistius huttonii, Gilnther {Platystethus). 



The new generic name is given by Dr. Theodore Gill 

 for Platystethus, which is preoccupied. 



