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It differs from P. hemisticta in comparative proportions also 
in colour markings, as ascertained from the description by 
Jordan and Starks.°? The maxillary is much shorter, not 
extending beyond the anterior margin of the eye; there are more 
plates at the base of the first dorsal fin and the rays are 
relatively higher: both ventral and pectoral fins are longer and 
the detached rays of the pectoral (which may be ealled 
Chiropods) are relatively shorter. 
In regard to colour, the large black spot on the dorsal fin of 
the Japanese species is replaced with small scattered spots, not 
dissimilar from those on the body, the dorsal rays bear three 
rows of spots and the ventrals and chiropods are also spotted. 
Fresh specimens of P. hemisticta may exhibit markings on these 
fins also, as the one described was ‘‘apparently faded.’’ 
Judging from our examples, however, I shall be quite prepared to 
hear that the colouration of the specimen was not far from 
normal. It is unlikely that there is any agreement in the 
colour of the pectoral in the two species; in P. hemisticta the 
markings are in the form of two rows of milk white spots, while 
in the New Zealand form there are seven black bars. 
The name P. andertoni was published, the above description 
written, and the accompanying plate prepared before I discovered 
that the species was in all probability identical with Trigla 
picta, described from Juan Fernandez. 
Having communicated these facts to Mr. A. R. McCulloch, he 
informs me that the same species was trawled by the 
‘*“Wndeavour’’ in Southern Australia; the three known habitats 
of this handsome fish are therefore in approximately the same 
latitude. 
The genus Otohime, of which O. hemisticta is the type, is a 
synonym of Pterygotrigla. 
LEPIDOTRIGLA Giinther, 1860. 
a. Pectoral long, more than one-third the 
total length, a black mark on the first 
dorsal ies ce i ae Vanessa. 
aa. Pectoral shorter, less than one-third the 
total length, dorsal without markings brachyoptera. 
Of the two described New Zealand species, one only was 
obtained. 
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(53) Jordan and Starks, P.U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxii. 1907, p. 132. 
