PISCES 183 
the lateral line is extremely pronounced and is gently bowed over 
the pectoral. 
Colours.—General colour purplish-brown above, _ silvery 
beneath, inside of mouth and the caudal rays dark grey. 
Length.—650 mm. 
The only example taken during the whole cruise of the 
trawler, was obtained at Station 11, at the mouth of the Clutha 
River in 10 fathoms. Hector mentions that he obtained a 
specimen in Bruce Bay, on the West Coast, in 1866. Since that 
time, according to Hutton, it has been thrown up from Cook 
Strait. 
Large specimens are very rarely seen in the Christchurch 
market, and though examples over three feet in length have 
been reported to me, the largest I have measured totalled two 
feet nine inches (840 mm.). Small specimens, twelve inches or so 
in length, are common, and are sold under the name of whiting. 
In the official report of the trawling expedition, the above 
record is entered under ‘‘Hake (Lotella rhacinus’’). In the 
report of the operations under the extended charter a similar 
entry occurs under Stations 125, 129 (in Karamea Bight, on the 
West Coast of the South Island), 155 (between Golden Bay and 
Tasman Bay, South Island), and 210 (near the Kaipara 
Entrance, West Coast, North Island), but whether these records, 
made by a different observer, refer to Merluccius or Physiculus, 
I am unable to say. 
PHYSICULUS Kaup, 1858. 
PHYSICULUS BACHUS Forster. 
Rep Cop. 
Plate: XX ME ie 
Gadus bachus Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst, Ichth., 
1801, p. 53. 
Stations 6,9, 10, 11, 12, 13; 15, 16,17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 50, 51, 
52, 538, 57, 61, 63, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 95. 
Bagiive D0 Aen AON oe eee, O. 21-12. Verte 
16 + 28 = 44. 
Length of head 3.7, height of body 4.3, length of caudal 4.7 
in the length. Diameter of eye 4.6, interorbital space 3.0, and 
length of snout 3.6 in the head. 
