FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 41 



Red 01' pink, marbled and longitudinally streaked on the back with 

 olivaceous brown, occasionally spotted or banded with pale yellowish ; 

 throat and disc yellow ; fins pink, spotted with yellowish. 



Wellington Harbour. 



65. TRACHELOCHISMUS GUTTULATUS. sp. nov. CM. 



D. 7 ; A. 8 ; C. 12. 



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

 of the head about one and two-fifths its breadth ; interorbital space twice 

 the diameter of the eye ; no tentacles on the nostrils. 



Dark olive brown, with ii-regular spots of pale brownish yellow, 

 below yellowish ; iris red when alive, yellow when dead. 



Wellington Harbour. 



The ventrals overlap the pectorals, but are not connected with them ; 

 disc between them broader than long ; the coracoids extend upwards 

 beyond the middle of the base of the pectorals ; dorsal and anal opposite ; 

 caudal free, rounded. 



Order 11. — ACANTHOPTERYGII PHARYNGOG- 



NATPIL 



Part of the rays of the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins iwt articulated, 

 forming sjnnes. The inferior pharyngeal hones coalesced, icith or without 

 a mediayi longitudinal suture. 



POMACENTRIDyE. 



Body compressed, more or less short, covered witJi ctenoid scales; dentition 

 feeble ; palate smooth ; one dorsal, with the spinous portion as well 

 developed as the soft ; ventrals thoracic, with one spine and five rays. 



Dascyllus. 



Prseoperculum sex'rated ; teeth in a naiTOw band, with an outer series 

 of somewhat larger ones ; anal with two spines ; the latei'al line ceases 

 below the soft doi*sal ; branchiostegals five. 



From the eastern coasts of Africa to Polynesia. 

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