FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 23 



lateral line continuous ; one dorsal ; ventvals jugular ; pectoral rays 

 branched ; villiform teeth on the jaws, vomer, and palate, without 

 canines. 



Australian seas. 



34. KATHBTOSTOMA MONOPTERYGIUM. Bleeker. CM. 



Cat Fish. 



Uranoseopus maculatus, Kich., p. 54, pi. 33. Anema monoiiterygium, 



Gunth., II., p. 230. 



D. 18-20; A. 17-18. 



Length three and three-foiirths that of the head, which is eight times 

 the diameter of the eye ; interorbital space twdce the diameter of the 

 eye ; body naked, or with minute scales above the lateral line ; lateral 

 line curved to the origin of the dorsal, thence straight close to the base 

 of the fin to the commencement of the caudal, where it bends suddenly 

 down and enters in the middle of the fin ; a filament in the mouth 

 below the tongue ; a short barbel in the middle of the chin ; a line of 

 four pores on the inferior margin of the prKoperculuni ; two short spines 

 in front of the eye, and another on the shoiilder. 



Above, with the pectorals and caudal, brown or brownish black, -svith 

 variously sized white spots ; below white. 



Sometimes 16 inches in total length. 



New Zealand only. 



The Colonial Museum possesses two fine specimens, in both of which 

 I find the filament in the mouth as represented by Sii* J. Richardson ; 

 I think, therefore, it should be removed from the genus Anema of 

 Giinther, and put into his genus Kathetostoma. 



35. KATHBTOSTOMA L^VE. Bleeker. CM. 



K. leave, Giinth., II., 231. 



D. 16-17; A. 17-18. 



Length two and three-quai-ters that of the head, or three and three- 

 quarters the height of the body ; the length of the head is five times the 

 diameter of the eye, which is rather less than tlie interorbital space ; 

 scales none ; lateral line straight from the shoulder to tlie commencement 

 of the caudal, then slightly bent down ; top of the head and round the 

 eyes rugose ; interorbital sjjace excavated ; tliree short s])incs on the 

 inferior mai-gin of the pra;oj)erculum, two below the mandibida, and two 



