170 WAITE 
upwardly directed spines, confined to the basal two-thirds of the 
spine; the points of the five following spines form a vertical 
line and the last is immediately followed by the soft dorsal, the 
fourth and fifth rays are the longest, and one half more than 
the eye; the base of the anal is longer, and it commences much, 
and terminates slightly, in advance of the dorsal; the upper 
rays of the pectoral are longest, measuring twice the diameter 
of the eye; the ventral is very short two-thirds an eye diameter; 
the caudal is truncate, twice the length of the eye and the depth 
of its peduncle is half the length of the fin. 
Scales—Head and body covered with minute rough scales, 
and, in addition to the ventral keels already mentioned, there 
are the usual bony strips towards the upper part of the sides 
anteriorly. 
Colours.—Base of snout and upper part of head and body 
orange, the other portions silvery ; white lines, directed upwards 
and backwards le in the neighbourhood of the upper bony 
strips and a thicker one runs a wavy course from behind the 
eye and joins the fifth line of the series referred to; a dark 
oblique broad band passes across the lower half of the body 
from under the pectoral rays to a space between the ventral 
and the anal, and is followed by a similar white band directed 
towards the anal rays; the fins are colourless. 
Length.—153 mm. 
The specimens obtained agree generally with Richardson’s 
figure, but the snout is not so thick and is longer, the eye is 
much larger, and is nearer the profile, the back is straight and 
not saddled, the caudal is longer and the belly is less convex; 
the hinder profiles are not so steep, and the bony scutes have 
not the stellate form shown, the last difference may be due to 
the fact that the type was a dried specimen, and some of the 
other differences may be due to age. 
Centriscops was taken on five occasions, somewhat remarkably 
only at southern stations, having been secured in the waters 
between Otago and Lyttelton Harbours, and at depths between 
18 and 53 fathoms. 
CENTRISCOPS HUMEROSUS, OBLIQUUS var. nov. 
Plate X XVI. 
There is an example in the Dominion Museum of 
which the Director, Mr. A. Hamilton, has kindly given 
