PISCES 245. 
Fins.—The dorsal commences above the root of the pectoral, 
its fifth spine is the longest, equal to the diameter of the eye; 
the first and last rays are shorter than the others, which are 
subequal, and one-half longer than the eye; the anal is lower 
and arises beneath the fifth dorsal ray; the pectoral and ventral 
are of equal length, one-sixth shorter than the head, the latter 
reaches the second anal ray; the upper lobe of the caudal is 
pointed, the lower lobe rounded, and the depth of its peduncle 
is nearly equal to the diameter of the eve. 
Scales.—The snout and lower parts of the head are naked. 
but the hinder part of the cheeks, opercles, and the whole of the 
body, are covered with ciliate scales of moderate size; the lateral 
line is slightly bowed over the pectoral and extends to the base 
of the caudal. 
Colours.—Generally sandy with dark brown markings, two 
lines along the body, the upper of which crosses the lateral line 
at the middle of its length, a number of bands pass from 
the upper brown line across the back, they are generally in pairs, 
one across the occiput, one at the first dorsal spine and another 
at the first ray, three more beneath the rays and a last one on the 
caudal peduncle; the base of the dorsal has a brown mark where 
crossed by each band and an intramarginal line of the same 
colour, the other fins are colourless. 
Length.—164 mm. 
One specimen only was obtained, it was taken in the Bay of 
Plenty in 66-94 fathoms, and judging by the large size of the 
eye it is an inhabitant of moderately deep water. 
This specimen is possibly only the third known, the type having 
been taken near Dunedin, while another is in the collection of 
this Museum. 
Family TRICHONOTIDAL. 
HEMEROCCTES Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1837. 
HEMEROCGTES ACANTHORHYNCHUS Forster. 
Plate Vis neva 
Callionymus acanthorhynchus Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, 
Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 41. 
Hemerocoetes acanthorhynchus Richardson, Voy. ‘‘Ereb. and 
Terr.,’’ Fishes, 1848, p. 123, pl. liv., figs. 7-12. 
Stations 5, 20, 48, 50. 
Byvi:y D: 426A. 40; V. 1. 5;.P. 18% C. 8 - 6: Ll. lat. 48; 
L. tr. 4 + 7. 
Length of head 4.2, height of body 11.2, and length of caudal 
6.7 in the total: diameter of eye and length of snout 3.3 in the 
head. 
