28 fishes of new" zealand. 



Trigla. 



Like the last, but "with exceedingly small scales, those of the lateral 

 line being sometimes larger. 



Nearly all pai'ts of the world except America, where only one 

 European species is found at New York. 



42. TRIGLA KUMU. Less, and Garn. CM. 



Gurnard. 



T. kumu, Jenyns, p. 27. Glintli., II., 204. T. 2?apilionaceay 

 C. and v., IV., 50. 



D. 9 -10 1 16 -17; A. 15. 

 Length equals four times that of the head ; interorbital space concave, 

 less than the diameter of the eye ; snout elongate, with its upper profile 

 sti'aight ; prasorbital produced beyond the snout, denticidated anteriorly ; 

 operculum with two short flat spines, and a short flat humeral spine ; 

 scales very small, those of the lateral line not armed ; along the base of 

 the dorsal on each side a row of spined scales ; pectorals reach to the 

 veiiiical from the tenth dorsal ray, ventrals much shorter. 



Above olive, largely mottled with reddLsh ; below reddish white ; 

 vertical fins, ventrals and pectoral filaments pale reddish ; caudal bright 

 i-ed ; oiitside of pectorals blackish gi-een, with the rays reddish, inside olive 

 green with the upper edge and tip light blue, and with the upper ray 

 and lower edge near the root reddish ; an irregularly shaped, but sharply 

 defined, black blotch near the lower margin, and several light blue spots 

 on its margin. 



Common. Australia, Cape of Good Hope, and China. 



Skeleton prepared by Dr. Knox. 



GOBIID^. 



Body elongate, low, naked or scaly ; two dorsals, the first less 

 developed and composed of flexible spines ; ventrals sometimes imited 

 into a disc ; gill openings more or less narrow; a jJroviinent j^cjnllce near 

 the vent ; teeth generally small, sometimes with canines ; carnivorous. 



GOBIUS. 



Body scaly ; ventral fins united into a disc, which is not attached to 

 the belly ; teeth in several series in the upper jaw ; gill openings of 

 moderate width ; five branchiostegals. 



All temperate and tropical regions. 



