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FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



teeth in the jaws rather strong, some on the vomer; the lower nine 

 pectoral rays simple. 



Back and sides greenish bronze, with three whitish longitudinal 

 bands ; belly yellowish white ; fins blight yellow, more or less marked 

 with black. 



Tasmania. 



13. LATRIS CILIARIS. Forst. CM. 



Moki. 



L. cilimis, Rich., p. 37, pi. 26. Giinth., II., 8G. 



B. 6; D. 17 I 39; A. | ; L. Lat., 84. 



Length four times that of the head, or three times the height of the 

 body ; six simple pectoral rays, no vomerine teeth. 



Above plumbous, with golden reflections ; below silvery white, with 

 small brown dots ; tins blackish. 



Skeleton prepared by Dr. Knox. 



Common from "Wellington southwards. 



SCORP^NID^. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales, sometimes rudimentary ; 

 eyes lateral ; dentition feeble ; suborbital ring articulated with the 'prm- 

 operculum ; one dorsal fin, the spinous equally or more developed timn the 

 soft ; ventral s thoracic; five to seven bi-anchiostegals. 



Sebastes. 



Head and body compressed to the orbits, without a groove on the 

 occiput ; prseoperculum armed ; body and top of the head covered with 

 rather small scales ; dorsal deeply notched with twelve or thii-teen spines ; 

 villiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomex', and generally on the palate ; 

 seven branchiostegals. 



Almost all seas. 



14. SEBASTES PERCOIDES. Solander. CM. 



S. percoides, Rich., p. 23, pi. 1.5. Giinth., II., p. 101. 



D. 11|_V, ; A. 3; L. Lat, 60-G5. 



Total length three and a quarter times that of the head, or three and a 

 half times the height of the body ; diameter of the eye rather more than 

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