PISCES 185 
AUCHENOCEROS Giinther, 1889. 
AUCHENOCEROS PUNCTATUS Hutton. 
Plate XXXI., fig. 2. 
Calloptilum punctatum Hutton T.N.Z.I. v., 1873, p. 267, pl. xi., 
fig. 76. 
Auchenoceros punctatus Giinther, Rep. Chall. xxxi., 1889, p. 26, 
Di, ails, fo) C. 
Stations 40, 41, 46, 86, 87. 
eames 1 ok teem ee eS Are GS. Pi 10s Von 
C. 18 + 14; Vert. 10 + 37 — 47. 
Length of head 5.1, height of body 4.7, length of caudal 5.6 
in the length; diameter of eye 3.7, interorbital space 5.5, and 
length of snout 3.7 in the head. 
Head and body strongly compressed, mouth oblique, jaws 
equal, gills four, a slit behind the fourth, pseudobranchiz 
present, gill membranes free from the isthmus, which is narrow. 
Teeth.—Villiform teeth in the jaws, none on vomer, palatines 
or tongue. 
Fins.—First dorsal rav hairlike, placed over the root of the 
pectoral and a little shorter than the head; the second dorsal 
begins above the extreme tip of the pectoral or nearly twice the 
leneth of the head from the snout, the intermediate rays are 
very short to the seventeenth, whence they rise to form the 
third portion of the fin, the hinder part of which is elevated: 
the anal fin commences below the point midway between the 
first and second dorsal fins and terminates evenly with the dorsal, 
near to the caudal rays: the ventrals are equal to the head in 
leneth, the pectorals being somewhat shorter: the caudal 
peduncle is very slender, its depth being less than the diameter 
of the eye. 
Scales—Cheeks and opercles scaly, the scales are extremely 
deciduous, the number on the body, as indicated by the pits. 
being nineteen in the transverse, and ninety in the longitudinal 
series. 
Colours.—Pink, a black spot within the upper angle of the 
opercle and a broad yellow band along the whole course of the 
lateral line. 
Length.—157 mm. 
As above indicated, two illustrations of the species have been 
published, the outline figure by Hutton does not show the inter- 
mediary dorsal rays, while the pectoral is represented as 
