212 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



Named " Kekogop " by the natives of Queen Char- 

 lotte's Sound. 



46. Tripterygion forsteri. C. and V. xi. p. 415. (Blen- 



nius tripinnis, J. R. Forster, MS. II. 41, apud BL 

 Schn. p. 174.) 



47. Tripterygion fenestratum. C. and V. xi. p. 416. 



(Blennius fenestratus, G. Forster, fig. pict. 2, t. 186. 

 J. R. Forster, MS. II. 39, apud Bl. Schn., p. 173.) 

 Inhabits the fresh- water rivulets of Dusky Bay, and is 

 named by the natives " Hetarooa." 



48. Tripterygion capita. Jenyns, Zool. of the Beagle, 



pi. 19, f. 1. 

 Crawls over the tidal rocks in the Bay of Islands. 



49. Eleotris gobioides.-C. and V. xii. p. 247. 



50. Eleotris radiata. C. and V. xii. p. 250. 

 Taken in the mouth of the river Thames. 



50*. Eleotris basalis. Gray, Zool. Misc., 73. 



Inhabits the River Thames, New Zealand. Dr. Dief- 

 fenbach. 



" Brown, in spirits, minutely darker speckled; fins darker, 

 blackish ; the pectoral fin with a broad yellow basal band ; head 

 blackish; tail rounded; first dorsal 7, hinder 10 rayed; ventral 

 5 rayed." Gray. 



51. H&meroccetes acanthorhynchus. C. and V. xii. 



p. 311. (Callionymus acanthorhynchus, G. Forster, 

 fig. pict. 2, t. 175. J. R. Forster, II. 30, apud Bl. 

 Schn., p. 41. C. monopterygius, Bl. Schn. 1. c. 

 L'Hemerocet acanthorhynque, C. and V., 12, p. 31 1.) 



The Forsters, father and son, described and figured a specimen 

 of this fish, which was thrown up in a storm on the beach of Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound. It had not come in the way of collectors since 

 that time, until Dr. Dieffenbach procured a specimen in Wangaroa 

 Bay, Chatham Island, which he sent to the College of Sur- 

 geons, and he also possesses a coloured sketch of the recent fish. 

 Through the kindness of Professor Owen, I have had an opportu- 

 nity of examining the specimen, and of drawing up the subjoined 



