FISHES— MCCULLOCH. 



85 



The thirteen specimens were trawled at the following 

 stations : — 



Off Cape Everard, \'ictoria, 70 fathoms. 



Twenty miles north-east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 68 

 fathoms. 



Disaster Bay, New South Wales, 45 fathoms. 



The genus Zenopsis is commonly regarded as pelagic, but 

 this is obviously incorrect, though it would seem that some of 

 the species pass through their earlier stages near the surface. 



Genus Cvtti;s, Gunther. 



CvTTUS NOV^>ZELANDi.^, Arthur. 



(Plate vii., fig. 2, and lig. 20.) 



Zeus novcE-zelandice, Arthur, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvii., 1885, 



p. 163, pi. xiv., fig. 3. 

 Cyttus novce-zelandicE, McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, XXXV., 1910, p. 307; id., Waite, Rec. Cantb. 

 Mus., i., 191 1, p. 190, pi. xxxii. 

 D. viii. 28; A. ii. 29 ; P. 11 ; V. i. 6 ; C. 13; 1. lat. 83; 1. tr. 

 9 + 47. 



Height r62 to i'68 in the length from the premaxillary 

 when the mouth is closed to the hypural. Head almost 3 in 

 the same. Eye very large, 2*4 in the head and longer than 

 the snout. Interorbital width at its narrowest point i "4 in 

 the eye. Orbit defined aboxe by a curved ridge which is 

 armed with microscopic denticulations and forms an angle 

 at either end with the rest of the orbital margin. Another 

 curved ridge, perforated with numerous pores, extends frohi 

 the origin of the lateral line to the anterior end of a triangular 



depression above the occiput, which receives the posterior 

 processes of the premaxillaries. All the other bones of the 

 head are very thin and have their edges smooth. When the 

 mouth is closed, the hinder margin of the maxillary is slightly 



