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72. GADUS AUSTRALIS. sp. nov. CM. 



Haddock. 



D. 11 -12 1 19 I 22; A. 19|22; V. 7. 



Length equal to four and one-thii-d times that of the head, or seven and a 

 half times the height of the body ; length of the head two and four-fifths 

 that of the snout; diameter of the eye not much more than half the length 

 of the snout ; lower jaw longer ; no barbel ; strong teeth in both jaws, 

 the outer series being shorter and fixed, the inner longer and capable 

 of being folded back ; strong teeth in a double series on the vomer, none 

 on the palatine bones ; upper profile of head straight, snout conical ; 

 head higher than broad ; maxillary extending to beyond the middle of 

 the eye ; scales very small ; vent rather nearer to the snout than to the 

 end of the tail, below the commencement of the second dorsal ; a space 

 between the first and second dorsal, the second and thii-d subcontinuous ; 

 a short space between the anals ; proportions of the fins — 



ID. 2D. 3D. 1 A 2 A. 



1 2-7 1-9 2-4 2-1 



Above purplish, sides, and belly silvery ; inside of the mouth white. 



Thrown uji on the coast by heavy storms. 



It is said sometimes to attain a length of 4 feet. 



Cook Straits. 



Halargyreus. 



Moderately elongate, covered Avith small scales ; two dorsal and two 

 anal fins, the latter subcontinuous ; ventrals composed of several rays ; 

 jaws with a band of minute villiform teeth of equal size ; j^alate smooth; 

 no barbel ; seven branchiostegals ; gill rakers of the outer branchial arch 

 long. 



Atlantic. 



73. HALARGYREUS JOHNSONII. Gunth. CM. 



H. joh7iso7iii, Giicth., IV., 343. 



D. 8)54; A. 24 1 20; V. 5. 



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

 times the height of the body ; length of the head three and three- 

 fourths that of the snout ; upper profile straight ; head higher than 



