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41. Tripterygion nigripenne (C. and V. xi.p. 413). 



Lesson and Gamot, when they accompanied Duperrey, discovered this 

 species in the rivers of New Zealand. 



42. Tripterygion varium (C. and V. xi. p. 414). (Blennius varius, G. Fors- 



ter, ii. t. 185 ; J. R. Forstcr, II. 43, apud Bl. Schn. p. 178.) 

 A finished drawing was made by G. Forster of a specimen of this fish, 

 captured on the 9th of Nov. 1774, in Queen Charlotte's Sound. Its native 

 name is " ke kogop." 



43. Tripterygion forsteri (C. and V. xi. p. 415). (Blennius tripinnis, 



J. R. Forster, MS. 11.41, apud Bl. Schn. p. 174.) 

 This Tripterygion is also from New Zealand, notwithstanding the following 

 passage in the ' Histoire des Poissons:' — " On ne nous dit pas ou il avait etg 

 trouve." But in Forster's ' Notes,' as quoted by Schneider, we find, under 

 Tripterygion fenestratum, " Habitat cum sequentibus circa insulam Novae 

 Zelandice, inter saxa ad ostia rivulorum aquae dulcis, locis cestu mari irrigatis." 

 Now in Forster's manuscripts the species stand in the following order : — 



MS. II. 42. Clinus littoreus. 



' 43. Tript. varium. 



44. Scorpaena cottoides, Sfc. 



MS. II. 39. Tript. fenestratum. 



40. 



41. Tript.forsteri (B.tripinnis). 



44. Tripterygion fenestratum (C.and V. xi. p. 410). {Blennius fenestra- 

 te, G. Forster, ii. t. 186 ; J. R. Forster, MS. II. 39, apud Bl. Schn. p. 173.) 

 G. Forster executed a figure of this species in Dusky Bay with more than 



usual care. It frequents the mouths of rivulets, and is named " he-tarooa " 

 by the natives. 



45. Tripterygion capito (Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, p. 94, pi. xix. f. 1.). 

 Mr. Darwin captured this little fish on tidal rocks in the Bay of Islands. 

 Several gobies and periophthalmi have been detected on the northern shores 



of New Holland, and in the islands of Torres Straits, but none exist in any 

 of the collections that have hitherto been made in Van Diemen's Land and 

 New Zealand. 



46. Eleotris gobioides (C. and V. xii. p. 247). Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, p. 98. 

 Discovered by Quoy and Gaimard in the fresh waters on the north-east 



coast of New Zealand. Forster named another member of this family, which 

 he found on the island of Tanna, Blennius gobioides. It is the Salarias al- 

 ticus of the ' Histoire des Poissons.' 



47. Eleotris radiata (C. and V. xii. p. 250). 



Found by Quoy and Gaimard in the mouth of the river Thames, in Febru- 

 ary 1827. 



48. Eleotris basalis (Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 73.). 

 Inhabits the river Thames. 



49. Hemerocjetes acanthorhynchus (C. and V. xii. p. 311). (Callio- 

 nymus acanthorhynchus, G. Forster, ii. 1. 175; J. R. Forster, 11.30, apud 

 Schneider; Call, monopterygius, Bl. Schn. p. 41.) 



No specimen of this curious fish having been seen since the time of Cook, 

 our knowledge of it is entirely derived from the figure and description of the 

 Forsters. It was thrown up after a storm in Queen Charlotte's Sound. The 

 natives named it " kogo-hooee," probably from some fancied resemblance or 

 connexion with Eleotris nigra, which is termed " kogo " in the Polynesian 



