STUniRS T\' AI'STl.'AMAN KISHES AIcOdM.Oril. 



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Br. 5. D. 8/8; A. 8/17; P. 11; V. (» ; (;. IS. About 60 inyonieres, 

 of wliich the iseveiiteentli desceiids to the ventral tin, and tlie thirtv-sixth 

 falls beh)W tlie oiigin of tlie (h)i'Siil. About sixty scah^-pits in n 

 lougitudinal row. 



Depth before the ventrals 08 in the length to tiie hypuval joint; 

 liead 4"() in the same. Eye 3*2 in tlie head ; snout 1"2 in the eye, and 4 

 ill the head. Intei'oculai- space slightly greater than the length of the 

 snout. First branched dorsal ray 1"8, first branched anal ray 2, pectoral 

 1'4, and ventral 1'8 in the head. Anal Hn commencing below the middle 

 of the dorsal base, .laws subeqnal. Pi-emaxillary teeth in a single row ; 

 a few teeth on the edge of the jnaxilla. Mandibular teeth in two rows 

 anteriorly, uniserial laterally. Vomerine and palatine teeth in single 

 rows ; a row of large hooked teeth on each side of the tongue with some 

 median ones posteriorly. 



This specimen differs from Richardson's description in having the 

 jaws equal, the mandibular teeth biserial anteT'ioily, and five instead of 

 six branchiostegals. 



Fig. 2. Relfoftinna velrophnia. 



Variafiov. — A second New Zealand specimen (fig. 2) differs fi'om the 

 Cotype oidy in being rather more elongate. In other specimens the 

 mandible projects well beyond the upper jaw as described and figured by 

 Richardson. The dorsal ra^'s var}' from 11-13 in number, the anal from 

 18-20, and the pectoral from 9-12. 



Local ities. — Seventeen specimens, 50-78 mm. long, are in the Australia!! 

 Museum fi'om New Zealand, all of which are more oi- less i!iipoifectly 

 preserved. Three ai-e fi-om Lake Rotoiti, and one from Napie!', North 

 Island; coll. W. .1. Phillipps. 



Rrtropinna srmoni, Weher. 



Ansti-alian Smelt. 



(Plate xi., figs. 2, 3.) 



Tilehartlsoiiid retropinna, Steindaclmei', Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, liii.. 

 1866, p. 469 (Not Anietitlun rotrnpinmi, Richardson). 



J\('fr(>i>iini(( rirJninJtmitli, Macleny, Proc. Liini. Soc. N.S.Wales, vi., 1S82, 

 p. 228. /-/., ()i,nlby, Cat. Fish. N.S.AVales, 1886. p. .^5, «i.d P!oc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxi., 1897, p. 727 (Not of (iill). 



