ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 17 



Cuvier says that he should be inclined to consider it as the same with J. R. 

 Forster's Gadus colias, but for its very different numbers of rays, which are 

 the same as in Parkinson's figure of macrocephalus, above quoted. It is pos- 

 sible that there may be a mistake or misquotation of the dorsal rays by 

 Schneider, in which case the nicthemera would most probably have to be 

 razed from our list of species. Solander mentions that the opercular bones 

 of macrocephalus are the only scaly parts of the head, and this character is 

 considered in the ' Histoire des Poissons' as a peculiarity of nicthemera. He 

 also states that six or seven brown bands are faintly visible on the body of the 

 living fish, the colours in other respects being those ascribed to nicthemera. 

 The banded distribution of the darker tints is a prevailing one in the genus. 



9. Uranoscopus maculatus (Forster). Bearded Star-gazer. ( Uranoscopus 

 maadosus, Solander, p. 21. U. maculatus, J. R. Forster apud Schneider. 

 G. Forster, 2. 1. 176. 177. U. monopterygius, Bl. Schn. p. 49. U. cirrhosus, 

 C. andV. 3. p. 314. U. forsteri Idem, p. 318. U. kouripoua, Lesson, 

 Voy. pax M. Le Cap. Duperrey, pi. 18. U. maculatus, Rich. Annals, &c 

 ix.p.207.) 



In the last -quoted paper reasons are assigned for considering the several 

 names here quoted as synonyms of a single species, examples of which Avere 

 procured at Tolaga bay on Cook's first voyage, in Queen Charlotte's Sound on 

 his second voyage, and in the Bay of Islands by the naturalists of La Coquille. 

 Lesson states that 'Kouripooa,' is the name given to it by the natives of New 

 Zealand, while Forster says that they call it ' Bedee'. 



10. Upeneus vlamingii (C. and V. 3. p. 452.). (Labrus calophthalmus, So- 

 lander, p. 35. Parkinson, 2. t. 46. Up. vlamingii, Annals, 9. p. 21 1.) 



This fish came under the observation of Solander and Parkinson in Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound. It exists likewise in the Indian ocean, Admiral Vlaming 

 having left a figure of it which was copied by Renard. Specimens were also 

 collected by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard. 



11. Upeneus porosus (C. and V. 3. p. 455.). 



This Upeneus was detected by Peron in Van Diemen's Land, and by Les- 

 son and Garnot in the rivers of New Zealand. 



The following percoid-fish inhabit the seas of New Holland. Apogonrex- 

 mullorum (C. and V.) ; Ap. aprion (Annals, ix.) ; Sen-anus lepidopterus, 

 (Annals, ix.) ; S. gilberti (Annals, ix.) ; >S". merra (C. and V.) ; S. stellans 

 (Annals, ix.) ; S. ura (C.andV.); S. crapao (C. andV.); Plectropoma den- 

 tex(C. and V.) ; PI. serratum (C. andV.); Pi. nigro-rubrum (C. and V.); Meso- 

 prion yapilli (C. and V.) ; M. carpo-notatus (Annals, ix.) ; M. ? emeryii (Icon. 

 Pise. fasc. i. t. 3= f. 2*); Centropristes truttaceus (C. and V.) ; C. georgianus 

 (C. and V.) ; C. scorpcenoides (C. and V.) ; Grystes macquariensis (C. and 

 V.); Cheironemus georgianus (C. and V.) ; Therapon servus (C. and V.) ; 

 Th. theraps (C. and V.); Th. rubricatus (Annals, ix.); Pelates quadrilineatus 

 (C. and V.) ; Helotes sexlineatus (C. and V.) ; II. octolineatus (Jenyns, Zool. 

 Beag.); Sillago maculata (C. and V.); S. bassensis (C.and V.) ; S. punctata 

 (C. and V.); S.burra (Annals, ix.); Beryx lineatus (C. and V.); Trachich- 

 thys australis (C. and V.); Aphritis urvillii (C. and V.) ; Uranoscopus Icevis 

 (C. and V.); Ur. maculatus (Annals, ix.); Polynemus plebeius (C. and V.); 

 P. tetradactylus (C. and V.); Percis emeryana\ (Annals, ix. Icon. Pise. 1. 

 f. 1) ; P. nebulosa (C. and V.) ; Upeneus porosus (C. and V.). 



* Icones Piscium, or Plates of Rare Fishes, by John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., &c. London, 

 1842. 



t This is Dentex fasciatus discovered by Solander on the coast of New Holland, May 24, 

 1770. It is also, perhaps, the variety of Percis nebulosa, noticed in C. and V. iii. p. 263. 



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