190 WAITE 
portions of the ventral and spinous anal dark brown, otherwise 
the fins are colourless. 
Length.—864 mm. 
The dory was trawled at the final eight consecutive Stations, 
all charted in the Bay of Plenty, and it was taken nowhere 
else during the first cruise: the depths ranged from 16 to 94 
fathoms. In New Zealand it proves to be a northern species, 
and is not uncommon in the Auckland district. One hundred 
and sixty examples were taken at one haul in 30 fathoms in the 
Hauraki Gulf during the extended cruise of the trawler. I 
have no record of the Dory having been seen south of Cook 
Strait; the trawler ‘‘Doto’’ obtained examples in 1900, in 
Tasman Bay, which, though in the South Island, is northward 
of Wellington. 
CYTTUS Giinther, 1860. 
CYTTUS NOVH-ZEALANDIZ Arthur. 
Sinver Dory. 
Plate XXXII. 
Zeus novae-zealandiae Arthur, T.N.Z.I. xvii., 1885, p. 163, pl. 
xiv. fig. 3. 
Cyttus novae-zclandiae Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. Phil. vi., 
1898, p. 115. 
Stations 22, 26, 67, 70, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93. 
B. vil.; De als 20¢ Ago. vale Ve pe Wie Gr hs ee 
L. lat. 76; L. tr. 10 + 52; Vert. 12 + 19 = 31. 
Length of head 2.73, height of body 1.62, length of caudal 4.4 
in the total; diameter of eye 2.77, interorbital space 3.81 in the 
head. 
The head is deep; its upper and lower profiles are straight 
and meet in a slightly obtuse angle: the interorbital area is 
raised, due to the posterior process of the premaxilla whose 
tip lies in a V-shaped groove formed by the divergence of the 
supraoccipital above the middle of the eye: the eye is large. 
high in the head, the space below it being equal to twice its 
vertical diameter; the snout equals the length of the eye; the 
mouth is moderate and sub-vertical, it can be protracted to 
thrice the length of the snout: the nostrils le close together 
in front of the eye, the anterior one is small, the other larger 
and vertically oval: the maxilla is one-fourth longer than the 
diameter of the eye, and is narrowed distally: the lower jaw 
