160 CATAT.OGUli OK FISH. 



12. FlERASFER BORABORENSIS, KttUp. 



Diarjn. Length of the head comprised ten or eleven times in the 

 total length of the fisli. 



Descr. One of the longest specimens, measuring 23 in., has on 

 the vomer a round cluster of thick teeth. The distance from the 

 tip of the snouL to the anus is 1*22 in., and the pectoral fins are 

 0-35 in. long, 



Borabora, where it %as discovered by Lesson and Garnot. 



13. FlERASFKR PARVIPINNIS, KailJ), flg.^. 



A disagreeable-looking fish, with a blunt head flat on the dorsal 

 aspect, and swollen at the cheeks. Anal fin low, the dorsal very 

 low and scarcely perceptible. Head forming a ninth part of the 

 entire length. On the short forward projecting point of the vomer 

 a terrace-like row of rising teeth which are not laterally com- 

 pressed. The other dentiferous bones support two or three rows of 

 nowise remarkable teeth. The species attains a length of 1004 in., 

 whereof the head constitutes 1-18 in., and the pectoral fins mea- 

 sure 0-28 in. Colour, a yellowish flesh tint with dark points. 



Carteret Harbour, New Zealand, discovered by Quoy and 

 Gaimard. 



Genus 5. ENCHELIOPHIS, Juhaimes Miiller. 



No pectoral tins. Anus behind the gill-opening. Six branchio- 

 stegals. 



14. Encheliophis vermiculaeis, J. Midler. 



Encheliophis vermicularis, Miiller, Monatsbericht d. Ac. zu Berl. 

 1842, p. 205. 

 Four inches long. Tail taper-pointed. 



