40 FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



GOBIESOCID^. 



Body depressed anteriorly, naked ; a single dorsal on tlie tail 

 without spines ; anal short ; ventrals wide apart, with one spine hidden 

 in the skin, and four or five rays, a large adhesive apparatus between 

 them ; carnivorous. 



DiPLOCREPIS. 



Snout somewhat pointed ; posterior portion of adhesive disc, with 

 the anterior margin free ; both jaws with incisors, and other smaller 

 teeth behind ; gills thi'ee. 



New Zealand only. 



63. DIPLOCREPIS PUNICEUS. Rich. CM. 



Sucker. 



Lepidogaster puniceus, Rich., p. 71, pi. 43. D. puniceus, Gilnth., III., 506. 



D. 10-11; A. 4-5-. 



Length two and two-fifths that of the head ; length of the head 

 rather more than its breadth ; interorbital space equal to the diameter 

 of the eye ; anterior nostril with a tentacle on the posterior edge ; lower 

 posterior angle of operculum produced backwards into a point covered 

 with skin ; mouth inferiox-. 



Bright rose color, yellowish below. 



Cook Sti-aits, Wellington Harbour. 



Trachelochismus. 



Snoxit rounded ; j^o^t^'''^^'"' i^oriio^i of the adhesive disc suspended at 

 the coracoid bones, with the anterior margin free ; jaws with a patch of 

 small teeth in front, and with a series on the sides, no incisors ; gills 

 tlu-ee and a half. 



Fiji Islands. 



64. TRACHELOCHISMUS PINNULATUS. Forst. CM. 



T . 2)innulatus, Gunth., III., 509. 



D. 8 ; A. 7. 



Length rather more than two and a half times that of the head ; length 

 of the head nearly one and a half times its breadth ; interorbital space 

 nearly twice the diameter of the eye ; both nostrils with short tentacles, 

 the anterior ones being the longest. 



