FISHES OP NEW ZEALAND. 83 



nostrils ; a series of distinct obtuse tubercles along tlie median line of the 

 back ; some similar tubercles above the eye and on the shoulder (Giinth.) 



New Zealand (Rich.), South Australia. 



I have seen no specimens. 



TORPEDINID^. 



Ti'unk broad, smooth ; tail with rayed dorsal and anal fins, and a 

 longitudinal fold along each side ; anterior nasal valves confluent into a 

 quadrangular lobe ; an electrical organ between the pectoral fins and 

 the head. 



Torpedo. 



Disc subcircvilar ; tail distinct ; two dorsal fins on the tail, without 

 spine ; caudal well developed ; vcntrals separate ; teeth poiiated ; spiracles 

 at a short distance behind the eyes. 



Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. 



134. TORPEDO FAIRCHILDI. sp. nov. CM. 



Torpedo. 



Torpedo marmo^rUa, Cat. Col. Mus. 



Spiracles not fringed, situated at about their own diameter behind the 

 eyes ; first dorsal over the venti-als, vdth the jiosterior edges of both in 

 a line, about one and a half times the size of the second ; mandibulary 

 teeth not quite reaching to the angles of the mouth ; tail shorter than 

 the body. 



TJnifoi'm greyish black above, whitish beneath. 



This specimen, which was 34 inches in length, and 24 inches in 

 breadth across the head, was caught by Captain Fairchild, of the colonial 

 steamer ' Luna,' stranded on the mud inside Napier Harbour, in 

 February, 1868. I was fortunate enough to see it, and to take the 

 foregoing description of it while it was alive. The skin is now in the 

 Colonial Museum ; the natives called it Whai-ngenge ; it differs from both 

 hebetans and nai-ce in the position of the first dorsal, as well as in other 

 minor points, and from all the other sj)ecies by not having the spii-acles 

 fringed. 



RAJID^. 



Disc broad, rhombic, generally with asperities or spines ; tail with a 

 longitudinal fold on each side ; the pectorals extend to tlie snout ; no 

 sen-ated caudal spine. 



