FISHES. 221 



63. Galaxias fasciatus. Gray, Zool. Misc., 73. 

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



fenbach. 



" The body brown, with nearly regular narrow cross bands on 

 each side." 



" This species resembles, in its form and proportions, Esox 

 alepidotus, Forster, Icon, ined., Brit. Mus., No. 235 : but that 

 figure represents his species as olive-green; the back, head, bases 

 of the dorsal fins, and the side of the body marked with unequal, 

 moderate-sized, irregular-shaped, yellow spots : some of the spots 

 are lunate, and one on each side, over the pectoral fin, is ring- 

 shaped, with a central eye ; while all the specimens brought home 

 by Dr. Dieffenbach, both the adult and young, are marked with 

 similar cross bands." Gray. 



64. Sairis scombroides. (Esox scombroides, Solander, 



Pise. Austr., p. 40. Esox saurus, G. Forster, fig. 

 pict. 2, t. 233. J. R. Forster, MS. II. 65, apud Bl. 

 Schn., p. 394.) 



Inhabits Dusky Bay and the sea between New Zea- 

 land and New Holland. It is named " He-eeya" by 

 the aborigines. 



O 



65. Exocetus subpellucens. (Esox subpellucens, Solan- 



der, Pise. Austr., p. 14.) 

 This is a bearded species. 



66. 67. Exocetus exiliens et volitans. Auct. 



Both these forms of flying-fish are stated by voyagers to be in- 

 habitants of the Australian and New Zealand seas, but we have 

 seen neither specimens nor figures of them from New Zealand. 



Fam. CLUPEODIE^E. 



68. Clupealata. Solander, Pise. Austr., p. 17. 

 Inhabits Tolaga Bay. 



We do not know to which of the subdivisions of the Linnsean 

 genus Clupea it properly belongs. Megalops is an Australian 

 form. 



Fam. GADOIDE^E. 



69. Lota baccha. Cuv., Reg. An. 2, p. 334. (Gadus 



rubiginosus, Solander, Pise. Austr., p. 49. Gadus 



