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of moderate height, exteudiug nearly to the root of the caudal. Left pectoral more 

 developed than the right and rather more than one-half of the length of the head. 

 Brownish ; fin-rays indistinctly punctulated mth brown. New Zealand. Length of 

 specimens, 6 inches. Station 1G7 ; 150 fathoms. 



Photichthys argenteus, Hutt. (dry), Cook's Straits. 

 Monacanthus convexirostris, Gthr., Queen Charlotte Sound. 

 Bdellostoma cirrhatum, Forst., Queen Charlotte Sound. 



a COASTS OF SOUTHERN AUSTEALIA. 



The fishes were collected principally at two places : close to Twofold Bay and at 

 Sydney, at which place the ship remained from April G to June 8, 1874.^ 



Eaja nitida, n. sp. (PL XIV. fig. A). 



The angle formed by the front margins of the snout is obtuse, with a very thin 

 median papillary projection. The width of the interorbital space is a little less than the 

 length of the orbit, and the distance between the outer margins of the nostrils is likewise 

 less than their distance from the extremity of the snout. Teeth with very small points, 

 almost obtuse. Outer pectoral margin obtusely rounded, the greatest width of the disk 

 being ec[ual to the distance of the snout from the extremity of the ventral. All the 

 upper parts covered with minute asperities ; one or two curved spines in fi'ont and 

 Ijehind the orbit ; one in the middle of the back, and a series along the median line of 

 the tail. Upper parts light brownish, marbled with dark brown, the dark brown blotches 

 being ornamented by small, round yellowish ocelli. 



The single young specimen is a male ; it is 8 inches long, the tail being 4^ inches ; 

 greatest width 5 inches. Off Twofold Bay ; 120 fathoms (?). 



Etelis, sp. 



Partly from the want of a larger series of examples, partly from the indifi"erent state 

 of preservation of the two very young examples obtained near Twofold Bay, I am unaljle 

 to say whether the latter are the young of Etelis carhunculus or of a distinct species. 

 These fishes evidently inhal)it not inconsiderable depths. Length of specimens, 2-i inches. 

 Off Twofold Bay ; 120 f^xtlioms (?). 



Enoplosus armatus. White, Botany Bay. 

 Chcetodon nesogcdliciis, C. V., Botany Bay. 



' [Off Twofold Bay a sounding was taken in 2200 fathoms. The ship then moved in towards the shore ; tlie dredge 

 was pxrt over and we sounded again in 120 fathoms. As, in this instance, the dredge was dragged for a considerable 

 distance up an irregular slope, it is impossible to say at what depth each particular species was taken. — C. Wv. T.] 



