FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 6 



New Zealand, II., 200) as occurring in New Zealand, but there does not 

 afipear to be any descriptions of tliein, and they ai'e not mentioned by 

 Dr. Giinther. 



PRISTIPOMATID^. 



Body oblong ; scales ctenoid ; eyes lateral ; oio teeth on the vomer ; 

 anal either equal to, or smaller tlian the soft dorsal ; ventrals thoracic, 

 with one s^iine and five soft rays ; lower i-ays of the pectorals branched. 



Erythrichthys, 



Rather elongate ; mouth protractile ; two dorsals, with several isolated 

 spines between ; caudal forked ; no teeth in the jaws nor on the palate ; 

 pi'geopercukim entii'e ; scales rather small. 



Molucca Sea, Sunda Sea, Australian Seas, Pacific. 



3. ERYTHRICHTHYS NITIDUS. Rich. CM. 



Emmelichthys nitidus, Rich., p. 47, pi. 29. Eri/thrichthys nitidus, Giinth, 



I., p. 395. 



B. 7 ; .D 9| SlgiJo ; A. ^ ; S. Lat., 96 ; L. trans., 8/20. 



Length rather more than three and a quarter times that of the head, 

 which is about equal to the height of the body. 



Whole of the head, base of the pectorals outside, lower half of anal 

 and soft dorsal, and outside of the ventrals, covered with scales ; caudal 

 with small scales almost to the tip ; angle of praeoperculum rovmded. 



Mr. W. Travers informs me that when fresh this fish is of a bright 

 salmon color, rather darker on the back. A stuffed specimen is in the 

 Museum, which was caught at the movitli of the river Avon, in Canter- 

 bury, and pi-esented by W. T. L. Travers, Esq. Total length of the 

 specimen, fifteen inches. 



SQUAMMIPINNES. 



Body co7npressed and elevated, covered w^th scales ; eye lateral ; teeth 

 in villi/orm bands, witlwut canines or incisors; dorsal single, with 

 spinous and soft portions of nearly equal development ; anal ^vith three 

 or four spines ; the vertical fins more or less deitsely covered with small 

 scales ; lower pectoral rays branched ; ventrals thoracic, with one spine 

 and five soft rays. 



