26 FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



NOTOTHENIA. 



Body rather compressed posteriorly, covered with scales ; head 



depressed ; mouth oblique, lower jaw longer ; eye directed upwards ; 



lateral line interrupted, the posterior portion continued to the caudal • 



two doi-sals, the sjnnes fiexihle ; ventrals jugular ; lower pectoral rays 



branched ; both jaws with cardiform or villiform teeth ; six bi'anchios- 



tegals. 



Falkland Islands, Auckland Islands, and Kerguelen's Land. 



39. NOTOTHENIA CORIICEPS. Rich.? CM. 



Flat-head. 



N. coriiceps, Rich., p. 5., pi. 3. Giinth., II., 261. 



D. 5 I 29 ; A. 23 ; V. 6 ; L. Lat., 56. 



Length three and one-fourth the length of the head, which is one and 

 one-foui-th its breadth ; moxith wide, oblique, with rather sti'ong teeth in 

 the jaws ; interorbital space rather hollowed, the top of the head rough 

 with papillse ; operculum with a semicircular notch in the upper part ; 

 prseoperculum entire ; pectorals situated rather far back ; caudal rounded ; 

 scales cycloid ; lateral line stops near the end of the second dorsal, but 

 commences again immediately below and continues on to the caudal. 



Uniform black (preserved by carbolic acid). 



This specimen was obtained by Dr. Hector in Milford Sound ; it is 

 about 18 inches in total length. It differs from coriiceps in the number of 

 rays as well as in the absence of pores on the head, snout, and prgeoper- 

 culum, the only ones that I can make out being three on each side of 

 the lower jaw, and one near the upper posterior corner of the eye, but 

 as the specimen has been preserved in carbolic acid and dried, it may not 

 now be possible to distinguish them. 



This species is found at Kerguelen's Land and the Auckland Islands. 



40. NOTOTHENIA CORNUCOLA. Rich. 



iV. cormicola et tnarginata, Rich., pp. 8 and 18, pi. 11 and 12. 

 N. cormicola, Giinth., II., 261. 



D. 5 I 31 - 33 ; A. 27 - 29 ; L. Lat., 52. 

 Height of the body is five and a half times in the total length ; the 

 lensjth of the head four times. 



