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ZEOMORPHI. 
Family ZEIDA. 
The New Zealand representatives of the family may be thus 
distinguished :— 
a. Bony plates at base of vertical fins. . ZRINA. 
Zeus faber. 
aa. No bony plates at base of vertical fins CYTTINA. 
b. Body longer than deep. 
e. Two dorsal fins. 
d. Ventrals receivable into a sheath  Cyttus. 
e. First dorsal filamentous .. australis. 
ee. First dorsal not filamentous novae- 
zealandvae. 
dd. Ventrals not receivable into a 
Sheath .. ae .. Capromimus. 
ee. One dorsal fin cade ay Diretmus. 
bb. Body deeper than long. . ..  Rhombocyttus. 
ZEUS Linneus, 1758. 
ZEUS FABER Linneus. 
JOHN Dory. 
Zeus faber Linnzus, Syst. Nat. ed. x., 1758, p. 137. 
Zeus australis Richardson, Voy. Ereb. and Theme 1845, p. 36, 
Po letexexcyes ot oe sal: 
Stations 89.0905 Ol O27 Oe OOM aoe 
By vile Dix. 24 <A iv: 22: Via. Toe, 14 Oot Senos 
L. lat. 114; L. tr. 15 + 108. 
Length of head 2.45, height of body 1.78, length of caudal 
4.0 in the total; diameter of eye 3.84, interorbital space 6.61 in 
the head. 
Body oval, strongly compressed, head deeper than long, the 
profiles meeting at the snout form a right angle: the eye is 
moderate, longer than deep, and placed high in the head, the 
space below it being three times its vertical diameter; the snout 
is nearly twice the length of the eye; the mouth is large and 
oblique, and can be considerably protracted; the maxilla is twice 
and the dentary twice and a half the diameter of the eye, the 
latter is produced at the angle, and has a spine above it; the 
lower jaw projects well beyond the upper. 
