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stomachs. At Station 7 specimens were voided by lings 
(Genypterus blacodes) and at Station 89 the Dories (Zeus 
faber) furnished several examples, in addition to Cepola aotea 
and Myctophum humboldti. All are too much digested to be 
useful further than for identification and for ascertaining the 
number of vertebre, which I find to be 44 + 78 = 122. 
LEPTOCEPHALUS Scopohi, 1777. 
LEPTOCEPHALUS CONGER Linneus. 
Concer EEL. 
Muraena conger Linneus, Syst. Nat. ed. x., 1758, p. 245.. 
Stations 40, 51, 52, 72, 76, 77, 78, 80. 
The Conger Eel was taken at Stations between Timaru and 
Porangahau Bay, south of Hawke Bay, and at depths from 914 
to 28 fathoms. Some of the examples reached a length of 
2060) mm: (= 6£t. 9m.) 
The number of vertebrae has been variously rendered within 
close limits, a count of one of the trawled specimens yields 
54 + 102 = 156. 
INIOMI. 
Family SUDID. 
CHLOROPHTHALMUS Bonaparte, 1840. 
CHLOROPHTHALMUS NIGRIPINNIS Gtinther. 
CucuMBER F'IsH. 
Plates XOxeve 
Chlorophthalmus nigripinnis Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 
m., 1878, p: 182, and Chall. Rep. xxi, 1887p. 1934 plea 
fig. A. Waite, Mem. Aust. Mus. iv., 1899, p. 54, fig. 4. 
Stations 88, 89. 
By vio; Di 11s A. 10% VN. 9): ©. 19. Sea eS eo 5-leealateee 
L. tr. 5 + 6; Vert. 47. 
Length of head 3.44, height of body 5.21, length of caudal 
4.91 in the total: diameter of eye 2.63, interorbital space 10.0 
in the head, and one-fourth the diameter of the eye. 
Head wider than deep, eye very large, cutting the upper 
profile, its cavity occupying the greater part of the head; inter- 
