On the Chissijication of Teleostean Fishes. 197 



beliind the interparietal, bordered by a pair of nuclials and a 

 ])air of temporals ; three pairs of nuchals ; fiftii upper hibial 

 below the centre of the eye. Ear-opening oval, lar^^er than 

 the transparent palpebral disk, its anterior border with two or 

 three short ])rojecling- lobules. 84 seales round the middle 

 of the body, dursals largest and feebly striated. Pra3anal 

 scales scarcely enlarged. The adpressed limbs fail to meet. 

 Digits moderately long, subcylindrical ; subdigital lamelUe 

 smooth, 16 to 18 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half 

 as long as head and body. Dark olive-grey above, with 

 small black spots and a blackish-brown wavy lateral band, 

 ])a.ssiug through tlie eye ; this band may be dotted with white ; 

 lower parts leaden grey or blackish. 



milliiu. 



Total length 168 



Head 14 



\\"u\th of head 9 



Body 54 



Fore limb 18 



Hind limb 24 



Tail 100 



The British Museum is indebted to Professor Artliur 

 Dendy for specimens of this species, most nearly allied to 

 L. mocOf D. & B., of New Zealand. Professor Dendy in- 

 forms me that the new lizard is common on Pitt Island, a 

 small island south-east of Chatham Island, whilst no lizards 

 have yet been recorded from the latter. 



XXXIII. — Notes on the Classijicati'on of Teleostean Fishes. — 

 II. On the Berycida. By G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S. 



FlKST included by Cuvier among his Percoi'des, the Berycida3, 

 after having been raised to family rank by Giinther in 1859, 

 have later been regarded by the same author as the repre- 

 sentativesof astill higherdivision, theBeryciformes, equivalent 

 to his Perciformes. The reasons for such a course have never 

 been explained otherwise than by the brief diagnosis which, 

 in Giinther's latest work, ' Study of Fishes,' runs thus : — 

 " Body compressed, oblong, or elevated ; head with large 

 niuciftrous cavities, vviiich are covered with a thin skin ; 

 ventral fins thoracic, with one spine and more than five sott 

 rays (in Monoccntris with two only)." As compared with 

 the definition of the Perciformes, the first of these characters 



