FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 55 



89. EXOCCETUS SPECULIGER. C. and V. CM. 



Flying- Fish. 



E. evolitas, Cat. Col. Mus. K specidujer, Giinth., VI., 287. 



D. 10-12; A. 12-13; L. Lat., 50. 



Length one and one-seventh times the length of the head, wliich is 

 nearly three and three-fourths the length of the snout ; diameter of the 

 eye one and one-third times the length of the snout, and rather less than 

 the interorbital space ; depth of the head equal to the distance from the 

 end of the snout to the hind margin of the orbit ; interorbital space 

 concave ; no barbels ; the pectoral fin extends beyond the dorsal and 

 anal, nearly to the rudimentary rays of the caudal ; ventrals nearly 

 midway between the eye and the root of the caudal, extending to the 

 end of the base of the anal. 



Above purplish, below silvery white ; an oblique white band across 

 the lower half of the pectorals, and with a broad whitish ed^^e. 



A specimen, 10 inches long, from the Bay of Islands. 



Indian Ocean and Australia. 



Very large Flying Fish are seen off the Great Barrier Island and the 

 north coast of New Zealand. 



STERNOPTYCHID^. 



Body naked, or mth very thin deciduous scales ; no barbels ; adipose 

 fin present ; margin of the wpper jaw formed by the maxillary and inter- 

 maxillary, both of which are toothed; opercular apparatus not completely 

 developed ; gOl opening very wide ; a series of lihosphorescent bodies 

 along the lower 'parts. 



Deep sea fishes. Mediterranean and Atlantic. 



PhOSICHTHYS. gen. NOV. 



Body rather elongated, compressed, without scales, but covered \vith 

 a silvery pigment ; a series of phosphorescent spots along the lower side 

 of the body and tail ; head compressed, with the bones thin ; cleft of 

 the mouth wide, obliquely descending; maxillary lai-ge, produced 

 backward, and receiving the intermaxillaiy in the \ipper concave part of 

 its margin ; some large teeth in both jaws, and a single row of curved 



