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and has recorded a pretty full account of it's colours when fresh. George 

 Forster's figure is coarsely executed, but in conjunction with J. R. Forster's 

 notes, quoted by Schneider, it renders the species easily recognisable. Its 

 native name, in Queen Charlotte's Sound, is " ehogoa." 



70. Lota rhacina. (Gadus rkacinus, G. Forster, ii.t. 179 ; J. R. Forster, 



MS. iv. 16, apud Schn.; Phycis rkacinus, Bl. Schn. p. 56.) 

 This resembles the preceding species in form, but differs in colour and in 

 the numbers of the fin-rays. It was also taken in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 

 where it bears the appellation of " ahdoroo." 



71. Brosmius venustus. (Blennius venustus, Parkinson, ii.t. 5.) 



This is doubtless one of the Hakes mentioned by Polack. Parkinson's figure 

 was executed from a specimen obtained in Totaeranue, or Ship Cove. Solan- 

 der gives no account of it, unless the brief notice of his Blennius rubiginosus, 

 in p. 14 of the ' Pisces Australia?,' ought to be referred to this species. As 

 he mentions only a single dorsal, it is most likely a congeneric fish, and there 

 is no great discrepancy in the colours so as to point unequivocally to a distinct 

 species. He took it in Tolaga Bay. 



We have already seen that the "Cole-fish" of the sailors is aPercis: whether 

 the " Polack " of the settlers be another Percis or a true Gadoid fish we have 

 no means of ascertaining. 



The Lepidolepri, or Macrouri, which are considered by Cuvier to be nearly 

 allied to the Gadoid family, but by the Prince of Canino to form a group of 

 the Ganoid order, having much affinity with many fossil genera, exist in the 

 depths of the Australian seas, and will probably be hereafter added to the list 

 of New Zealand forms. 



Platessoideje. 



Polack says that the seas of New Zealand produce Flat-fish, which are named 

 "pitiki" by the natives, and are intermediate between the large flounder 

 and the sole. 



72. Rhombus? scapha. (Pleuronectes scapha, G. Forster, ii.t. 193; J. R. 



Forster, MS. II. 46, apud Bl. Schn. p. 163.) 

 An inhabitant of Queen Charlotte's Sound, named " mahoa " by the abo- 

 rigines, and compared by Forster with the Platessa limanda. The eyes are 

 on the left side. 



73. Rhombus plebeius, Solander, p. 12. 



Solander having noticed only the colours of this flat fish, without describing 

 its form or dentition, we cannot refer it to its proper genus, but it is very pro- 

 bably a Rhombus brought from New Zealand by Dr. Dieffenbach, which 

 agrees with the little that Solander says of the species. The eyes are on 

 the right side. It was taken in Tolaga Bay, and, like the preceding one, 

 measured a foot in length. 



Mr. Jenyns notices a Platessa which was found by Mr. Darwin in King 

 George's Sound, but does not name it. He says that it scarcely differs from 

 the Platessa orbignyana of Bahia described by Valenciennes in the ' Voyage 

 of Orbigny.' Another species from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, is de- 

 scribed in the ' Zoological Transactions,' vol. iii. 



Discoboli. 



74. Lepadogaster pinnulatus (Forster, MS. IV. 15, apud Bl. Schn. p. 



199). (Cyclopterus pinnulatus, G. Forster, ii. t. 248.) 

 Three portraits of this fish, under different aspects, were made by George 

 Forster from a specimen which was taken in Queen Charlotte's Sound on the 



