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Leptoscopiis angusticepsj sp. nov. 

 B. 6. D. 33. A. 40. P. 22. L. lat. 104 (52). 



Length nearly 4^ times that of the head or 8| times the 

 height of the body ; breadth of the head three fifths of its 

 length ; interorbital space less than twice the diameter of the 

 eye ; pectorals shorter than the head. Head not cuirassed and 

 without any ridges, covered with skin. Eyes on the upper 

 angles of the head, hardly vertical. Teeth in villiform bands 

 on both jaws, and a few on the palatine bones ; vomer 

 apparently smooth. Upper and lower lips with villi. Pale 

 olivaceous grey above, with numerous small dark grey spots 

 which are closer together on the top of the head ; below white ; 

 a band of silvery from the chin, through the opercles, along 

 the sides below the lateral line to the caudal. Total length 

 13 inches. Lateral line continuous. No humeral spine. 



Rab. Greymouth Lagoon. 



In the form of the head and in the position of the eyes this 

 species approaches Trachinus, but in other respects it more 

 nearly resembles Leptoscopus. 



Rhomhosolea tapirina^ Gunther, l. c. iv. p. 459. 



The fish that I described under this name in the ' Transactions 

 of the New-Zealand Institute,' v. (1872), p. 268, is evidently 

 a new species, and may be distinguished from R. tapirina by 

 the shortness of the cutaneous fold on the upper lip, by the 

 breadth of the interorbital space, by its large and deeply 

 sunken scales, and by its general shape. It may be called 

 R. retiaria. 



Lately, however, another flat fish has been sent to the 

 Colonial Museum, which answers exactly to Dr. Glinther's 

 description of R. tapirina^ except that the eyes are on the left 

 side instead of on the right. I presume that this is only an 

 individual variation ; but the point cannot be settled until 

 other specimens are obtained. 



Galaxias grandis^ Haast, Trans. N.-Z. Inst. v. p. 278. 

 I have examined the type of this species sent by Dr. Haast 

 to the Colonial Museum, and can find no character by which 

 it difiers from G. hrevipennis^ Gunther. This is probably the 

 fish mentioned by Dr. Hector as being " sometimes cast up on 

 the beaches of the great inland lakes of Otago " (Cat. of N.-Z. 

 Fishes, p. 124), and not Prototroctes oxyrhynchus^ as the latter 

 fish inhabits nnlv rapidlv ninnincr streams. 



