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and azure blue, blending into pale crimson witli golden and 

 azure-blue streaks on lower part of body. Head with blue 

 streaks descending on the snout. Fins brownish purple, 

 with varied markings of pink, yellow, and azure blue, the 

 latter being distinct, and the two former blending into the 

 ground-colour ; each scale with a violet patch in the centre. 

 Iris golden yellow. Two silvery streaks ; and a granulated 

 patch below the eye. No black bands on the side of the 

 body 



Teeth of jaws minute, in a double row, with some slightly 

 stronger teeth in front of upper jaw. No palatine teeth. 

 Young with three teeth on each side in distinct patches. 



In the coloration, general form, and divided vomerine 

 teeth, this fish is very similar to Upenoides Vlamingu, 

 but the absence of teeth on the palatine bones places it in 

 Bleeker's genus Upeneichthys. Distinguished from U.porosus 

 of the Australian seas by the absence of aiiy black lateral 

 streak. 



Specimen (in spirit) from outside Wellington Harbour. 

 Total leno-th 16 inches. 



Beryx affinis, Giinth. Cat. i. 13. CM. 



D. 7 I 12. A. 3 I 12. V. 1 I 7. L. 1. 44. L. t. 6 ] 12. 



Height equal to length of head and one third total length. 

 Operculum with two spines. Pectoral is one fifth the total 

 length. Eye situated high, its diameter being one fifth the 

 length of the head, and exceeding that of the snout ; two 

 nasal apertures close in front, the posterior being the larger. 

 Intermaxillaries carry fine teeth on the sides and a group of 

 large teeth on each side of a mesial notch, into which a pro- 

 jecting group of large teeth on the lower jaw fit. 



Colour crimson pink, paler beneath. 



A dried specimen collected by Mr. Robson at Cape Camp- 

 bell ; total length 18 inches. This fish agrees well with Dr. 

 Giinther's species, of wliich he gives a very minute descrip- 

 tion in the work above quoted. It inhabits also the coast of 

 Australia. 



Dinematichthys consobrinus, Hutton. 



Capt. Hutton's type is in the Colonial Museum. He does 

 not mention the presence of two minute spines in front of the 

 dorsal. If these are present in the other specimens, the genus 

 will have to be placed in the curious intermediate family of 



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