34 FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



breadth, or four and one-third times the diameter of the eye ; snout 

 rovmded, slightly shorter than the diameter of the eye ; dorsal commences 

 at a very short distance behind the head ; lateral line sloping gently down- 

 wards, ceasing under the tenth doi*sal spine ; dorsal joined to the base of 

 the caudal by a membrane. 



Pale yellow, with two oblique reddish streaks on the prseoperculum 

 from the eye backwards. 



Cook Straits, a single specimen, presented by Mr. Liardet. 



ACANTHOCLINUS. 



Body elongate, compressed, with small scales ; bands of small teeth 

 on the jaws, vomer, palatine bones, and tongue ; dorsal and anal long, 

 the greater part of both composed of spines ; caiidal rounded ; ventrals 

 jugular, composed of one spine and three rays ; several lateral lines ; gill 

 membranes united below the throat. 



55. ACANTHOCLINUS LITTOREUS. Porst. CM. 



A. fuscus, Jenyns, p. 92, pi. 18. A. littoreus, Giinth., III., 298. 

 Gadojysis 7narmoratus, Cat. Col. Mus. 



B. 6;D.|;A|J;V.i. 



Length three and a half times that of the head, or four and a quarter 

 times the height of the body ; four lateral lines, the lowest joining the 

 one next above it at the commencement of the anal ; pi'seoperculum 

 rounded, with a line of pores round the margin. 



Brownish olive, more or less marbled with black ; a white band from 

 the vertex to the snout, and a dark spot on the operculum ; vertical fins 

 edged with black ; immature specimens ai'e sometimes spotted with 

 white. 



Wellington Harbom'. 



TRACHYPTERID^. 



Body much elongated and strongly compressed ; mouth small, and 

 dentition feeble ; one dorsal fin, occupying the whole length of the back, 

 with a detached anterior portion, and composed of flexible rays ; caudal 

 rudimentary ; ventrals thoracic ; gill openings wide ; bones soft. 



Deep sea fishes. 



