FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 17 



Above pale gi-oeii and purple, with golden and silvery reflections, below 

 silvery white ; a blackish spot on the operculiuu ; top of spinous doi-sal 

 Wackish. 



Common. Aiistralia, Norfolk Island, Raoul Island. 



Skeleton jjrepared by Dr. Knox. 



Both this and the last species are called Yellow-tail in Auckland, but 

 as that name is aj^plied to a very different fish in Otago, it would be 

 better, I think, to drop it altogether and use for this fish the name l>y 

 which it is known in all pai-ts of the Colony but Auckland. 



Seriola. 



Body sUghthj comjjressed, abdomen rounded, with small or 

 rudimentary scales ; second dorsal and anal much more developed than 

 the first ; sphies before anal sometimes absent ; lateral line not armed ; 

 teeth on jaws, vomer, and j^alate in villiform bands. 



Nearly all tempei-ate and tropical seas. 



25. SERIOLA LALANDII. C. and V. CM. 



King Fish. 



;S'. lalandii, Glinth., II., 463. >S'. gigas et cultrata, Cat. Col. Mus., not 

 S. cidtrata of Forst. and Rich., which i^ Plaiystethus cidtratum, Giinth. 



D. G-8 1 3~io; A. 0-2 I ^; V. 5 ; P. 18-21. 



Length about four times that of the head, or four and a half times the 

 height of the body ; snout long, from two to two and a half times the 

 diameter of the eye ; ventrals moderate, the distance between their base 

 and that of the anal being from tAvo and a half to two and three quarters 

 theii- length ; maxillaiy reaches rather beyond the anterior margin of 

 the eye. 



Above steel blue, below white. 



Sometimes four and a half feet or more in total length. Represented 

 in the Museum by cb-awings by Mr. Buchanan. 



Brazil, Cape of Good Hope, Japanese Seas, Australia. 



Naucrates. 



Body oblong, Siib-cylindrical, with small scales ; a heel on each side 

 of the tail ; spinotis dorsal reduced to a few free spines \ ventrals thoracic ; 

 villiform teeth on the jaws, vomer, and palatine bones. 



All temperate and tropical seas. 

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