62 FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



98. GONORHYNCHUS GREYI. Rich. CM. 



Sand Eel. 



Rhynchana greyi, Ricli., pi. 29. G. hrevis, Kner. Novara., Fiscli., p. 343, 

 taf. 16. G. greyi, Giiutli., YII., 373. 



B. 4; D. 11-13; A. 9 ; V. 9. 



Length five and one-seventh times that of the head, or ten and four- 

 fifths the height of the body. 



Back greyish brown, with minute black dots ; a dark grey patch over 

 each eye ; scales on the sides pale purplish blue, edged with brown, and 

 minutely dotted with black ; belly i-eddish white ; iris purplish brown. 



Wellington Harbour, not uncommon ; Cape of Good Hope, 

 Australia, Japan, St. Paul's Island. 



CLUPEID^. 



Body -with scales ; head naked ; no barbels ; abdomen frequently 

 compressed into a serrated edge ; margin of the upper jaw formed by 

 the intermaxillaries mesially, and by the maxillaries laterally ; no 

 adipose fin ; anal sometimes very long ; gill openings wide ; pseudo- 

 brauchite large. 



Engraulis. ' 



Body oblong, compressed ; snovit more or less conical, 2:)rojecting 

 beyond the lower jaw ; small teeth on the jaws, vomer, and palatine 

 bones ; intermaxillar-ies very small, hidden ; anal fin long ; mouth wide. 



Temperate and tropical seas. 



99. ENGRAULIS ENCRASICHOLUS. L. 



Anchovy. 



E. encrasichohcs, var. mitipodum, Glinth., VII., 385. 



B. 12-13; D. 16-17; A. 18-20; L. Lat., 48-50. 



Length four times that of the head, or seven times the height of the 

 body ; snout pointed, projecting much beyond the lower jaw ; maxillary 

 very finely toothed ; origin of the dorsal fin midw^ay betAveen the end of 

 the snout and the root of the caudal ; anal commencing at some distance 

 behind the dorsal. 



