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species was represented at five of them. The bottom was sand 
and mud, and the registered depths 25 to 94 fathoms. 
The largest example previously known was 152 mm. in length, 
but specimens taken by the trawler show that it attains a con- 
siderable size, up to at least 560 mm. 
Three specimens were originally taken off Narrabeen, New 
South Wales, and those now recorded constitute a record for 
New Zealand, the genus not being previously known from our 
waters. 
Family PARAPERCIDAL. 
PARAPERCIS Bleeker. 
PARAPERCIS COLIAS Forster. 
BLUE Cop. 
Gadus colias Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth, 1801, 
p. o4. 
Stations 23, 25, 49. 
As this species inhabits the vicinity of rocks it is not usually 
taken in the trawl, and at two of the three recorded Stations the 
net was fouled with rocks. The Blue Cod was freely taken at 
the Chatham Islands on hand lines, the specimens being of large 
size and excellent market fish, a matter I have previously 
referred to (pp. 53 and 56). 
PARAPERCIS GILLIESH Hutton. 
Plate LIII. 
Percis giles Hutton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iii., 1879, p. 53. 
Station 89. 
Bivir; Dov. 2iscA. 17 Ve. Rs 20 Ca 4 Gr ataneGe: 
L. tr. 7 + 20. 
Length of head 3.7, height of body 4.8, length of caudal 4.5 in 
the total; diameter of eye 2.6, interorbital space 9.0, and length 
of snout 3.0 in that of the head. 
The upper part of the head and snout are declivous, while the 
under part is flat, the large eyes are quite near to each other 
and cut the upper profile: snout acute, mouth small, cleft 
horizontal, with the lower jaw slightly longer than the upper: 
the maxilla extends to beneath the anterior third of the eye. 
edge of preopercle smooth, a spine on the operele. 
Teeth.—A broad band of villiform teeth, and an outer pointed 
series in a single row in each jaw. 
