370 FIVE NEW FISHES FROM THE AUSTRALASIAN REGION, 



From E. gobioides, C.V., which is more nearly allied to it than 

 the second New Zealand species given by Hutton (Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst., xxii., 1889, p. 280,)^. radiata, Q.G., it differs principally in 

 having* fewer dorsal rays {Jiuttoni 8, gobioides 10), fewer scales 

 between the origin of the soft dorsal and the anal (kattoni 9, 

 goboides 10 or 11), a much lower body {hultoni 6y^, gobioides 5| 

 in the total length), a smaller head {Imttoni 4^, gobioides 3| in the 

 same), a greatly enlarged eye {hutloni 34, gobioides 6 in the head), 

 and in the equal length of both jaws. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this species to Capt. 

 Hutton, whose researches have tended so much to elucidate the 

 history of the New Zealand fishes. 



Type in the Australian Museum, Sydney, 



Register number, 1. 3162. 



Petroscirtes icelii, sp.nov. 



B. vi. D. 31. A. 22. V. 3. P. U. C. 11. 



Length of head 5;^, height of body 8^ in the total lengtli. 

 Eye large, with the supraorbital ridge prominent, its diameter 

 3i in the length of the head, and equal to that of the snout ; 

 interorbital space concave, five-sixths the diameter of the eye. 

 Upper jaw overhanging ; cleft of mouth wide, the maxilla 

 extending to beneath the posterior third of the orbit. Dorsal 

 profile of snout convex, of occiput flat. Head without ten- 

 tacles. Body elongate. Maxillary teeth thirty, mandibulary 

 thirty-two in number ; upper canines scarcely longer than the 

 incisors ; the lower strong and curved, half a diameter of the 

 eye. The dorsal fin commences above the gill-opening ; it is 

 without a trace of a notch, the rays being subequal in length, 

 with free tips, and rather more than the height of the body : the 

 anal fin commences beneath the twelfth dorsal ray, and is similar 

 to but not so high as the dorsal : ventral inserted slightly in 

 advance of the dorsal ; its length If in that of the head ; 

 pectoral a little longer than the ventral : caudal rounded, with 

 the tips of the rays free, equal in length to the head. 



