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Of this species I have seen no example, and it is known to me only 
by the descriptions and figures above referred to. It inhabits the 
bays of the middle island of New Zealand, and was taken on Cook’s 
first and second voyage in Queen Charlotte’s Sound and Dusky Bay. 
At the latter place its native appellation was ascertained to be “ Ta- 
raghee,”’ but the seamen called it “‘ Cole-fish.”” That it is different 
from the Ch. carponemus of the ‘ Histoire des Poissons’ I am inclined 
to believe, from the dissimilarity of the figure in the latter work with 
those drawn by Parkinson and George Forster, and from the more 
notched dorsal and stouter dorsal and anal spines than we find in 
authentic specimens of Ch. carponemus from King George’s Sound. 
These discrepancies, and the smaller number of dorsal and anal rays, 
authorise us to keep it distinct until an opportunity occurs of exami- 
ning the New Zealand fish. The broad black band which descends 
from the shoulder not quite as far as the pectoral is a good distinctive 
mark. The reader is referred to the ‘ Zoological Transactions,’ vol. iii. 
p- 101, for extracts from Solander’s notes, which may be compared 
with Forster’s description in the ‘ Historia Animalium,’ &c. p. 136. 
Some specimens of Cheilodactyli from Sydney which I have seen 
point at a species nearly allied to the two preceding ones as existing 
in that part of Australia, but the materials I possess are not suffi- 
cient for the elaboration of its distinctive characters. 
CHEILODACTYLUS NIGRICANS, Richardson. 
Radii.—Br. —; D. 1526 ; A. 3/10; C. 153; P. 9 et Wee Wiis 
spec. 
Toorjenung, Neill’s drawings, No. 42. 
This fish is the ‘‘Toorjenung”’ of the natives of King George’s 
Sound, and the “Black Jew-fish”’ of the sealers. Mr. Neill says 
that it grows to a large size, feeds grossly, and that its flesh is dry 
and dark-coloured. It is much prized by the aborigines, and forms 
a principal article of food among the native families, who are expert 
in spearing fish. The head ofa large fish is said to make good soup. 
It is an inhabitant of rocky points that project from sandy bays, and 
moves sluggishly along the bottom, ploughing the sand with its soft 
fleshy lips; hence it falls a ready sacrifice to the native spear, 
In shape this fish approaches to carponemus, but is rather more 
elongated in the body, and has a more arched spinous dorsal. Its 
eye is more remote from the gill-opening, being nearer to the middle 
of the head, and the preorbitar is shorter, its length not exceeding 
the diameter of the orbit. The most striking dissimilarity to the 
preceding species is in the longest pectoral ray, which projects only 
about one-sixth of its length beyond the membrane. It is the upper- 
most of the simple rays, and the four others are graduated and also 
project beyond the membrane as far in proportion. The disk of the 
preoperculum is broad, that of the interoperculum fully equal to it, 
and both these bones and the cheek are scaleless in the specimen, 
which has sustained some damage in the head, but not apparently in 
these places. Ch. carponemus and aspersus have interopercular 
bones rather narrower than the disk of the preorbitar, and both these 
