fishes of new zealand. 11 



Agriopus. 



Head and body compressed ; month small ; snout produced ; scales 

 none ; one dorsal deeply notched^ beginning on the head ; anal short ; 

 villiform teeth in the jaws ; five branchiostegals. 



Cape seas, Coast of Cliili, South Australian seas. 



16, AGRIOPUS LEUCOPOECILUS. Rich. CM. 



A. leucopoecilus, Rich., j?. CO, j)!. 37. Giinth., II., p. 137. 



D. jg,;A10. 



Length three and a half times that of the head, or two and tlu-ee- 

 quarters the height of the body ; length of the head two and a quarter 

 times that of the snout, or three and a half times the diameter of the 

 eye ; interorbital space contained one and a half times in the diameter 

 of the eye ; the fourth and fifth dorsal spines the longest, but less than 

 the length of the head ; body smooth. 



Brown, marbled with black, and with u-regular white blotches along 

 the lateral line ; a dark band aci^oss the caudal. 



Two stufied specimens ; Otago, presented by Mrs. Balfour, and 

 Wellington Harbor, presented by Mr. W. Travers. 



South Australian seas. 



Prosopodasys. 



Head and body more or less compi'essed ; scales rudimentary ; prse- 

 orbital and prasoperculum armed ; the three anterior dorsal spines more 

 or less separated from the others, and forming a distinct division ; 

 remainder of the fin continuous, with nine to twelve spines ; anal with 

 three ; teeth in the jaws and vomex\ 



East Indian seas. 



17. PROSOPODASYS COTTOIDES. L. 



P. cottoides, Giinth., II., p. 142. 

 B. 7;D. 31^3 A.^. 



Cleft of the mouth slightly oblique, wide, the upper maxillary reachuig 

 to the vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. 



Body and fins wdth small broMai spots and lings (Giinth.) 



China, Borneo, Java, and New Zealand (Giinth.) 



I have seen no specimens. 



