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52. TRYPTBRYGIUM VARIUM. Forst. (/L^ 



T. variwiii, Giinth., III., 277. 



B. 6; D. 5|24|U; A. 26; V. 2. 



Transverse streaks across the ojDercles and breast ; body dotted with 

 brown ; the first dorsal with a lihxck spot, the second with a series of 

 white spots along the base (Forst.) 



Coast of the Southern Island of New Zealand. 



I have seen no specimens. 



Sticharium. 



Body elongate, compressed, naked ; anterior jiart of the lateral line 

 distinct; small teeth in jaws and palate, no canines; dorsal long, single, 

 almost entirely spinoi;s ; ventrals jugular, -with two or three rays; caudal 

 distinct, roimded ; gill openings rather wide, the gill membranes 

 broadly united below the throat, and quite free from the isthmus. 



Australia. 



53. STICHARIUM RUBRUM. sp. nov. CM. 



^- 1 ' -^- 25 ' ^ • -" 



Length equal to five times that of the head, which is equal to the height 

 of the body, or to one and four-fifths the breadth of the head ; snout 

 pointed, two-fifths of the length of the head ; a simple truncated tentacle 

 over the eye, and a small nasal one ; upper profile of head straight and 

 nearly hoiizontal, lower profile ascending ; one dorsal, slightly notched 

 about the fourth spine, joined by a membrane to the base of the caudal ; 

 anal free from the caiidal ; ventrals formed of two flexible rays ; lateral 

 line straight from the shoulder as far as the end of the pectorals, then sud- 

 denly bent down until it reaches the middle of the body, from whence it 

 continues in an interi'upted line half way to the caudal, where it ceases ^ 

 dorsal commences immediately at the back of the head. 



Rose color, sometimes m re or less spotted or banded with black on 

 the sides of the head, body, and caudal ; fins yellowisli. 



Several s])ecimens from Wellington Harbour. 



54. STICHARIUM PLAVESCENS. sp. nov. CM. 



B. 6 ; D. f ; A. 30 ; V. 3 ; P. 12 ; C. 12. 

 Length four and three-fifths that of the head, or five and a quarter 

 times the height of the body ; length of the head one and two-fifths its 



