ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. 21 



Polack mentions Sword-fish in his list of the productions of New Zealand, 

 but the latitude with which popular names are applied prevents us from form- 

 ing any decided opinion as to the genus. He may have seen the Histiopho- 

 rus indicus, which probably ranges southwards to New Zealand. The true 

 sword-fish (Xiphias gladius) is confined as far as we know to the Atlantic. 

 The same writer also includes "pilot-fish" in his list. He may perhaps mean 

 the Naucrates indicus (C. and V. viii. p. 326). 



29. Chorinemus forsteri (Rich. Annals, ix.). (Scomber maculatus, G. 

 Forster, ii. t. 228; J. R. Forster, MS. II. 120, apud Schn. ; Sc. forsteri, 

 Bl. Schn. p. 26. 



The Forsters found this fish in New Zealand, and a New Holland specimen 

 is described in the 'Annals of Natural History.' It is named "milinjidnee" by 

 the natives of Port Essington, and is very probably the same species with the 

 Chorinemus commersonianus of the ' Histoire des Poissons,' viii. p. 370. 



30. Trachurus Nov^e Zelandije (C. and V.ix. p. 26). 



This trachurus belongs to the group which has the lateral line armed by 

 fewer than eighty shields, and differs little in external appearance from the 

 common European Caranx trachurus, but there are peculiarities in the struc- 

 ture of its skeleton and viscera. It was brought from New Zealand and Am- 

 boyna by Quoy and Gaimard, and from Shark Bay, New Holland, by Lesson 

 and Garnot. 



31. Trachurus ? clupeoides (Ann. ix.). (Scomber clupeoides, Solander, 



p. 31.) 

 Solander obtained this species in Dusky Bay. There is no figure of it, but 

 his description points it out to be a Caranx, and most probably of the group 

 of Trachuri. 



32. Caranx lutescens (Annals, ix.). (Scomber lutescens, Solander, p. 38.) 

 Was procured in Queen Charlotte's Sound on the 30th of March, 1 770. 



33. Caranx sinus-obscuri (Annals, ix.). (Scomber trachurus, varietas, 



G. Forster, ii. t. 223. C. and V. ix. p. 20.) 

 This Caranx, discovered by the Forsters in Dusky Bay, is, like the preceding 

 species, a member of the third of the three groups into which the " caranx 

 proprement dit " are divided in the ' Histoire des Poissons,' x. p. 45. 



34. Caranx platinoides (Annals, ix.). (Scomber platinoides, Solander, 



p. 13.) 

 An inhabitant of Tolaga Bay, but depending as a species on Solander's too 

 brief description. 



35. Caranx georgianus (Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, p. 71.). (Scomber micans, 

 Solander, p. 27 ; Parkinson, 2. t. 89. Caranx georgianus, C. and V. ix. 

 p. 85 ?) 



Inhabits Opooragi, New Zealand, and Shark Bay, New Holland. 



Polack mentions Dories as inhabiting the seas of New Zealand, but whether 

 he alludes to the same species that is taken at Van Diemen's Land or not re- 

 mains to be ascertained. 



The Australian Scomberoids are Scomber australasicus (C. and V.), Thyn- 

 nus bicarinatus (Q. and G.), Thyrsites atun (C. and V.), Chorinemus forsteri 



(Annals), Cybium clupeoideum (C. andV.), Trachurus ? (C. and V.ix. 



p. 20), Trachurus declivis (Jenyns), Caranx clupeoides (Annals), Car. geor- 

 gianus (C. and V.), Car, lessonii (C. and V.), Car. platinoides (Annals), Car. 



