PISCES 249 
Family SCORPAINIDA. 
SCORPAENA Linneus, 1758. 
ScoORPANA PERCOIDES Richardson. 
Sea PERCH. 
Sebastes percoides Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ix., 1842. 
p. 384. 
Scorpaena barathri Hector, T.N.Z.I. vii., 1875, p. 245. 
Stations 18, 19, 22, 23, 24. 25, 26, 30, 36, 38, 46, 49, 71, 83, 84, 88, 
3 89. 
This common species was freely taken, the depths ranging from 
13 to 105 fathoms. Giinther states that it descends to 400 
fathoms. 
In 1887 S. barathri was pronounced by Ginther*? to be 
synonymous with this species. Being possibly unaware of this, 
Gill®® catalogued it as Sebastapistes barathri, and it therefore 
appeared in Hutton’s ‘‘Index’’ and consequently in my ‘‘Basic 
list’’ also. 
Specimens taken on hand lines at Pitt Island, one of the 
Chatham Islands group, measure 398 mm. in length. 
In common with many other Sebastoid fishes, this species is 
viviparus, a fact first made known to me by Mr. Anderton. The 
young are very small, but are produced in large numbers. 
CONGIOPODUS Perry, 1871. 
CoNGIOPODUS LEUCOPzCILUS Richardson. 
Pia FIsH. 
Agriopus leucopaecilus Richardson, Voy. Ereb. and Terr., 1846, 
p. 60, pl. xxxvii., fig. 4, 5. 
Congiopodus leucopoecilus Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sei. vi., 1893, 
jee A ts 
Stations 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 
46, 49, 50, 51. 
The localities at which this species was taken are all southern 
ones, no examples being netted north of Pegasus Bay: it was 
found to be extremely common where it occurred, and was 
obtained at depths between 13 and 50 fathoms. 
The South American species C. peruvianus Cuvier and 
Valenciennes appears to have been first recorded for New 
(49) Giinther, Chall. Rep. xxii. 1887, p. 17. 
(50) Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. vi. 1893, p. 117. 
