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Brownisli, marbled witli darker ; an oblique liglit band, edged with 

 dark brown from below the eye to the lower limb of the praeoperculum 

 (Gunth.) 



Cape Howe, Falkland Islands, New Zealand (Gunth.) 



I have seen no specimens. 



COTTID^. 



Head and anterior portion of the body large and broad, posterior 

 part compressed ; head cuirassed, the suborbital ritu/ covering more or less 

 of the cheeks, and articulating with the 2>rceoperculum ; spinous poii-ion 

 of dorsal less developed than the soft and than the anal ; body naked or 

 covered with scales, with free pectoral rays. 



Lepidotrigla. 



Head parallelopiped, with the upper surface and the sides entirely 

 bony ; body, with scales of moderate size, regularly arranged ; three 

 free pectoral filaments ; villiform teeth in both the jaws and on the 

 vomer ; none on the palatine bones. 



Mediterranean, East India, and Tasmania. 



41. LEPIDOTRIGLA BRACHYOPTERA. sp. nov. CM. 



D. 8 1 16; A. 15; L. Lat, G3. 



Length is equal to tlu*ee and one-fourth that of the head, or four times 

 the height of the body ; snout depressed, short, one-third the length of 

 the head, and equal to the diameter of the eye, upper profile concave ; 

 prseorbital produced beyond the snout, and emarginate at the end ; 

 interorbital space deeply concave ; operculum jiroduced backwards into 

 a spine ; two spines above it, and one long one on the shoulder ; scales 

 modei'ately ciliated, those of the lateral line not spined ; along the base 

 of the doi'sal on each side a row of strongly spined scales ; pectorals 

 reach to the vertical from the third anal ray, filaments slioi'ter ; ventrals 

 almost as long as the pectorals ; caudal emarginate. 



Above pale red ; below yellow ; throat and breast white ; head silvery, 

 with the rugosities yellowish ; interior of pectoi'als black, margined with 

 yellowish. 



Obtained in Wellington Harbour, and presented by W. T. L 

 Travers, Esq. 



