the Fishes of the Family Macrorlianiphosida?. 21 



1. Centriscops sinuosus, sp. n. 



Deptli of body equal to lenf^th of head, 2^ in length of 

 fish. Diameter of eye equal to interorbital width, less than 

 postorbital length of head or depth of cheek, nearly ^ length 

 of snout. Interorbital region strongly convex, with median 

 ridge. Upper profile sinuous, convex in front of eye and 

 behind head ; belly convex. Each dorso-lateral series with 

 4 large plates. Dorsal VII, 15, the two tins subcontiiiuous 

 .second spine strong, serrated, nearly ^ as long as distance 

 from operculum to caudal, inserted above vent or origin of 

 anal. Anal 17-18. Pectoral as long as head without snout. 

 Caudal truncate. Brownish above, golden below. 



Two specimens, 125 and 135 mm. in total length, from 

 New Zealand, presented by the late Captain Hutton ; a 

 smaller example (55 mm.) is more slender, the depth being ^ 

 of the length. 



This species is very near C. hiimerosus, which has a some- 

 what longer snout and the dorsal spine placed higher and 

 further back. In the type of C. kumerosus the distance 

 irom the centre of the last bony plate of the upper series to 

 the base of the dorsal spine is more than f of that from head 

 to caudal fin, but in C. sinuosus only ^ to f . 



2. Centriscops kumerosus, Richards. 



Centriscus humerosus, Richards, 'Erebus' and 'Terror' Fish. p. 56, 

 pi. xxxiv. figs. 5, G (1846) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 522 (1861). 



Southern Australia. 



In the British Museum only the type, a dried specimen 

 about 130 mm. long. 



3. Centriscops ohliquus, AVaite. 



Centriscops humerosus obliquus, Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus. i. 1911, 

 p. 170, pi. XX vi. 



New Zealand. 



4. SCOLOPACICHTHYS, gen. nov. 



Scolopacichthys armatuSy ISauvage. 

 Centriscus armatus, Sauvage, Ai'ch. Zool. Exper. viii. 1879, p. 36. 



Island of St. Paul. 



Evidently generically distinct from Macrorhamphosus. 



