2. HEMEEOCOETES. 485 



very narrow. Two or four of the anterior dorsal rays produced, 

 more or less filiform. Greenish, with ten large brown blotches on 

 the back ; head and body with numerous red, black-edged ocelli. 

 Coasts of Celebes and Ceram. 



2. HEMEROCOETES. 



Hemerocoetes, Cuv. 8f Val. xii. p. 311. 



Head depressed, pointed, trunk subcylindrical, tail slightly com- 

 pressed ; cleft of the mouth wide, nearly hoiizontal, with the upper 

 jaw longest; eyes rather large, directed upwards. Scales of mode- 

 rate size, cycloid ; lateral line continuous. One dorsal ; all the rays 

 articulated, and not branched ; ventrals jugular, with one spine and 

 five rays. Gill-opening very wide, with the gill-membranes scarcely 

 united below the throat ; seven branchiostegals ; pscudobranchise. 

 ViUiform teeth in both the jaws, on the vomer, and on the separated 

 lower pharyngeal bones ; none on the palatines. Air-bladder and 

 pyloric appendages none. 



Coasts of New Zealand. 



1. Hemerocoetes acanthorhynchus. 



CaUion3Tnus acanthorh^Tichiis, Forst. Descr. Anim. cur. Licht. p. 117. 



monopterygius, Bl. Schn. p. 41. 



Hemeroceetes acanthorhynchus, Cut\ 8c Val. xii. p. 311 ; Richards. 



App. to Dieffenbach's New Zeal. p. 212, and Voy. Ereb. ^ Terr. Fish. 



p. 123. pi. 54 figs. 7-12. 



D. 39-41. A. 36-37. L. lat. 47. Vert. 10/37. 



Vomerine teeth in two lateral groups. The maxillary bone ter- 

 minating anteriorly in a spine ; the space between the eyes very 

 narrow. Uniform reddish-olive. 



Coasts of New Zealand. 



a. Fine specimen. New Zealand. Presented bj' Prof. R. Oweu. 



b. Adult. Cook's Straits. Presented by Sir E. Home, Bart. 



c. Adult. New Zealand. Presented by His Excellency Sir G. Grey. 



