BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 229 



The height of the body is less than the length of the head, 

 which is contained four times and two-thirds in the total length 

 (without caudal). Snout shorter than the eye, the diameter of 

 which is two-sevenths of the length of the head. The lower jaw 

 is the longer. Coloration uniform, v\dth a silvery band along the 

 side. 



Rope's Creek. Length three inches. 



Family VI. GALAXID.E. 



Body naked ; barbels none. Margin of the upper jaw chiefly 

 formed by the intermaxillaries, which are short and continued 

 by a thick lip, behind which are the maxillaries. Belly rounded. 

 Adipose fin none ; dorsal opposite to anal. Pyloric appendages 

 in small number. Air-bladder large, simple ; pseudobranchia3 

 none. The ova fall into the cavity of the abdomen before exclusion. 



Genus Galaxias, Cuv. 



A series of conical teeth in the jaws, on each palatine bone, 

 and on each side of the tongue ; teeth on the tongue hook-like. 



Rivers of Australia, New Zealand and Southern parts of South 

 America. 



841. Galaxias truttaceus, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth , Cat. Fishes YL, p. 209.— Richards., Voy. Erebus and 

 Terror, p. 75, pi. 42, figs. 1-6. 



B. 9. D. 11. A. 14-15. V. 7. P. 14. 



Body stout ; head broad, depressed, its length being somewhat 

 more than the height of the body, and two-ninths or a little less 

 of the total length (without caudal). Jaws equal in length. Cleft 

 of the mouth of moderate width, the maxillary not quite extending 

 to below the middle of the eye. Eye of moderate size, two-ninths 

 of the length of the head and shorter than the snout. The length 

 of the pectoral fin is one-half of the distance of its root from 



