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Family GADIDA. 
MERLUCCIUS Rafinesque, 1810. 
Meruucctus GAyI Guichenot. 
HAKE, WHITING. 
Plate XEXCXe fe 2: 
Merlus gayi Guichenot, in Gay, Hist. Nat. Chili, Zool. ii., 1847, 
p: 028, pl. vi., fig. 2. 
Gadus australis Hutton, Cat. Fish, N.Z., 1872, p. 46, <t Vii., 
fig. 72. 
Station 11. 
Dw SOe Ae 865° Ve ts PR. Ade Ce 24s aa siesta or 
Se. tr. 20 + 38. 
Length of head 3.3, height of body and length of caudal 5.0 
in the total. Diameter of eye 7.4, length of snout 2.9, and inter- 
orbital space 3.6 in the length of the head. 
Head very large and pike-like, the posterior border of the 
eye is exactly in the middle of its length: the interorbital space 
is lowly convex, with three parallel ridges; the nostrils are less 
widely separated than the orbits, the anterior one is very small, 
and is separated from the much larger posterior one by a thin 
septum; mouth very large, the maxilla reaching to the hinder 
border of the eye. 
Teeth—tLarge depressible teeth in two rows in the jaws, 
strong teeth also on the palatines, none on the vomer or the 
tongue. 
Fins—The first dorsal fin begins an eye-diameter in arrear 
of the opercular margin, and its third or longest ray is 2.5 in 
the head, the second fin is notched, but not very deeply, its 
median rays being one-half longer than the eye; the anal 
commences beneath the third ray of the second dorsal, and its 
notch is much deeper, being less than the diameter of the eye, and 
occurring posterior to the notch of the dorsal; the two fins end on 
nearly the same vertical: the pectoral is inserted beneath the 
angle of the opercle and extends to the vent; its length is 1.5 
in the head: the ventral arises wholly in advance of the pectoral, 
and is nearly half the length of the head; the caudal is small, and 
its rays terminate evenly. 
Scales.—The scales on the top of the snout and head and on 
the cheeks and opercles are very small, those of the body larger ; 
