180 WAITE 
removes any suspected association with C. fasciatus Gimther’” 
the seales of the body also are much smaller with more 
numerous keels, and the distance between the dorsal fins is less. 
C. fasciatus was originally taken by the Challenger Expedition 
in from 40 to 245 fathoms off the east coast of the southern 
extremity of South America. It was next obtained in Cape 
Seas by Dr. Gilchrist, and Mr. McCullocht® has recently 
identified it from 800 fathoms off the coast of New South Wales. 
He refers to the mutilation of the tail of the type specimen: 
this condition is quite common among the Macruroids, and in 
some of our specimens the snout also exhibits similar 
mutilations. 
MACRURONUS Ginther, 1873. 
MACRURONUS NOV4-ZELANDIZ Hector. 
Plate Xoo ie 1e 
Coryphaenoides novae-zelandiae Hector, T.N.Z.1. i., 1871, p. 
136; soll xovaiee et eae 
Macruronus novae-zealandiae Giinther, Rep. Voy. Chall. 1., 1880, 
Dower any xxdle SST pelo: 
Stations 20, 76, 77, 78, 81, 86, 87. 
Bo waite: 125 96%) AC 89 Vig (Sie siege eee eae. 
Se. tr. 8-16. 
Length of head 5.6, height of body 7.5, in the length; diameter 
of eye 3.5, interorbital space 5.1, length of snout 3.4 in the 
head. 
Head compressed, interorbital space flat, mouth large, lower 
jaw projecting, the maxilla reaches to below the middle of the 
eye; no barbel. 
The body is strongly compressed, and tapers evenly to the 
end of the tail. 
Teeth—The teeth in the upper jaw are in two series, the 
inner one with small regular teeth, the outer teeth large and 
somewhat uneven, a single series of large teeth in the lower 
jaw, a band of small teeth on the vomer. 
Fins.—The dorsal fin begins wholly behind the base of the 
pectoral, its first ray is the longest, one-half greater than the 
diameter of the eye: the ventral is placed slightly in advance 
of the point midway between the end of the snout and the 
(12) Giinther Chall. Rep. xxii. 1887, p. 129, pl. xxviii. fig. A. 
(13) Mc. Culloch, Rec. Aust. Mus. vi. 1907, p. 348. 
