Fishes of the Famili/ StromateidEe. 129 



Back and sides pale violet, silvery below; tip of both 

 dorsals and inner surface of pectorals blackish. 



Total length 170 millim. 

 ( New Zealand. 



Seriolella hrama. 



Neptomemos hrama, Giiuther, Cat. ii. p. 390 (18G0). 



Neptomenm travale, Casteln. Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict. i. 1872, p. 119. 



Depth of body 2§ to 2| times in total length, length of 

 head 3^ to 3| times. Snout as long as or longer than the 

 eye, the diameter of wliich is 3f to 5| times in the length of 

 head, interorbital widtli about 3 times. Maxillary extending 

 to below anterior margin of eye. D. VIII 27-31, the spines 

 increasing in length to the fourtli and fifth, which are the 

 longest and about equal in length to | the eye-diameter in 

 the young ; the soft fin emarginate, the anterior rays as long 

 as the postorbital part of the head, the posterior rays half as 

 long in tiie young, less than \ as long in the adult. 

 A. Ill 21-23. Pectorals elongate, falciform, 1^ times as 

 long as tlie head, twice as long as the ventrals in the young, 

 3 times in the adult. Ventrals inserted behind the pectorals, 

 more markedly so in the adult. Caudal deeply forked. 

 Sc. 87-100 2-^2' deciduous, the naked body with con.spicuou3 

 pores in the largest specimen only. Lateral line forming a 

 keel on the caudal peduncle. Blue-grey, witii a copper tinge 

 on the sides. Upper part of head a brown copper-colour. 

 A broad dark purple vertical band from in front of the dorsal 

 to the point of the operculum. Fins yellowish, inner side 

 of pectorals blackish, ventrals rosy white. 



Total length 400 millim. 



Coasts of Australia and New Zealand. 



Seriolella violacea. 

 Serioklla violacea, Guichen. I. c. p. 241, lam. 7. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total 

 length. Snout as long as eye, the diameter of which is 3* 

 times in the length of head, interorbital width 31 times. 

 Maxillary extending to below anterior third of eye, not 

 entirely slipping under the prseorbital. Prae-, sub-, and inter- 

 opercles minutely denticulated. D. VIII 27, the second 

 spine 3 times as long as the first, the rest subequal, the last 

 rather longer than the rest, the soft rays much longer than 

 the spines, the soft fin highest anteriorly. A. Ill 19, similar 

 to soft dorsal. Pectorals? Ventrals inserted below the 



