20 FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



Color (in spirits) Silvery, reddisli brown on the back and tail, and 

 with spots of the same color on the sides ; fins yellowish ; i^ys of the 

 pectorals spotted with black, and two marks of the same color on the 

 caudal. 



A specimen, 3 inches long, presented by W. T. L. Travers, Esq., 

 from Saltwater Creek, Canterbury. 



NOMEID^. 



Body ohlong, com2)ressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate 

 size ; dorscd toith a distinct spinous portion separated from or continuous 

 ivith the soft, which is the moi-e developed ; teeth small ; veutrals 

 thoracic. 



Gasterochisivla.. 



Cleft of the moiith wide ; several finlets between the dorsal and anal 

 and the caudal ; no separate anal spines ; ventrals very long and bi'oad, 

 and can be completely concealed in a deep fissure on the abdomen ; teeth 

 conical, small, forming single series in the jaws ; teeth on the vomer and 

 palatine bones. 



New Zealand only. 



30. GASTEROCHISMA MBLAMPUS. Rich. 



Butterfly Pish. 



G. melampus, Rich., p. 60, pi. 37. Giinth., II., p. 387. 



D. 17|ll YL; Af-|VI.;V.|. 



Ventrals black, one-third of the total length ; the maxillary reaches 

 somewhat beyond the vei-tical from the centre of the eye (Giinth). 



Wellington Harbour (Rich.) 



I have seen no specimens. 



Neptonemus. 



Cleft of moiith moderate ; snout obtusely conical ; prseoperculum 

 obtiisely crenulated ; first doi-sal continuous with seven feeble sjiines . 

 no finlets ; anal spines indistinct ; pectorals much longer than ventrals ; 

 a series of minute teeth in the jaws ; palate smooth. 

 New Zealand only. 



