PISCES 229 
and short lines, lips tinged with pink, throat sky blue. Eye 
brown, a golden then a bright blue line encircling the pupil. 
Dorsal fin blood-red anteriorly gradually passing through a 
purple tint into the dark olive of the hinder rays: anal fin 
similar to the dorsal, the red colour confined to the margin, both 
fins with closely placed blue spots most pronounced basally: 
membrane of ventral green, the rays pink: pectoral bluish: 
caudal intense greenish-blue tipped with brown. All the bones, 
together with the teeth, including the pharangeals, are deep 
ereen. 
Length.—520 mm. 
The Butter Fish was not taken in the trawl, but was freely 
caught in the nets set in the kelp in various places round the 
Chatham Islands. 
Family STROMATEIDAi. 
SERIOLELLA Guichenot, 1874. 
Two species of the genus were taken, but, unfortunately, the 
individual records were lost. The three southern Stations were 
made northwards of Dunedin to the Canterbury Bight, and the 
three northern ones in Hawke Bay and the Bay of Plenty, 
the recorded depths being 9 to 105 fathoms. 
Stations 22, 32, 39, 81, 83, 88. 
SERIOLELLA BRAMA Giinther. 
WAREHOU. 
Plate L. 
Neptomenus brama Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 11., 1860, p. 
390. Hector, Edible Fish. N.Z., 1872, p. 112, pl. v., fig. 31. 
Berita = 9) sayin. 20 = Atte Ad ey Veco ee ol ee die Se dal 
88; L. tr. 17 + 34; Vert. 7 + 17 = 24. 
Length of head 3.5, height of body 2.6, length of caudal 5.3 
in the length; diameter of eye 4.1, interorbital space 2.4 and 
leneth of snout 3.2 in the head. 
The upper and lower profiles of head and body form low even 
eurves, the dorsal being the more convex: the eye les wholly 
in the anterior half of the head and the nostrils are situated 
quite close to the end of the snout; the mouth is small, the 
maxilla not reaching the eye, it has a supplemental bone, the 
upper edge of which slips entirely under the preorbital; gill- 
rakers long, twenty-five on the first arch, of which seventeen are 
on the lower limb; opercles entire. 
