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' The interorbital spacé is so narrow that the orbits all but 
touch each other, the nostrils of each side are widely separated 
and are placed close in front of the eves, the maxilla extends 
to beneath the middle of the eye, and each preorbital carries 
a spine directed over the premaxilla; gill membranes very wide, 
not attached to the isthmus, gill-rakers short and blunt, fifteen 
on the first arch, of which two are on the lower limb. 
Teeth.—Villiform teeth in bands in the jaws and on widely 
separated patches on the expanded ends of the vomer. 
Fins——The. dorsal commences close behind the base of the 
pectoral, its rays are of uniform height, the few anterior and 
posterior ones excepted; their length is equal to the height of the 
body: the length of the anal is twice the distance of its origin 
from the end of the snout, it arises below the 5-6 rays of the 
dorsal and is continued posterior to that fin, its rays are one- 
fourth shorter than those of the dorsal; pectoral rounded 1.6 in 
the head; the ventral just reaches the vent, and it is a little 
shorter than the snout and eye together; the caudal is rounded, 
but the second and third upper principal rays are elongate, the 
third being the longest, and one-half longer than the fourth: 
the peduncle is low, one-half the diameter of the eye. 
Scales.—Snout naked, upper part of head, cheeks and opercles 
with scales a little smaller than those on the body, which are 
large, eyeloid and carry small auxillary sealelets at their bases; 
the scales of the lateral line are crenulate but not spinous. 
The lateral line is shg¢htly depressed over the pectoral, otherwise 
runs straight along the middle of the body. 
Colours.—All the colours have faded in the preservative, but 
during life they were very striking, the head and body being 
marked with blue lines and some red spots on the fins; subvertical 
lines on the cheek, and two lines on the dorsal may still be traced. 
I have, unfortunately, lost my drawings made on board the 
trawler. 
Length.—194 mm. 
This species was taken at the southern Stations, between 
Foveaux Strait northward to Pegasus Bay in 20 to 67 fathoms, 
and was also found in the stomachs of Barracoutas (Thyrsites 
atun) at Station 20. 
With the exception of a slightly larger eye and a difference in 
the caudal rays, the specimens agree well with Richardson’s 
figure; this writer mentions that the tail in his specimen was 
not perfect, and states that Forster drew the tail as being lunate 
at the end, and that Dr. Dieffenbach described the fin as being 
truncated with an elongation of the upper angle. 
