216 WAITE 
HYPOPLECTRODES Gill, 1862. 
HYPOPLECTRODES SEMICINCTUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
HALF-BANDED SEA PERCH. 
Plectropoma semicinctum Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 
Poiss. ix., 1833, p. 442. 
Plectropoma huntw Hector, T.N.Z.I. vii., 1875, p. 240, pl. x., 
feel. 
This species was found to be very common off the Chatham 
Islands and usually caught on the lines employed for Blue Cod 
(Parapercis) and Hapuka (Polyprion). I have also seen 
specimens caught off Kaikoura in the South Island. 
Family HISTIOPTERID. 
ZANCLISTIUS Jordan, 1907. 
ZANCLISTIUS ELEVATUS Ramsay and Ogilby. 
LONG-FINNED Boar FIsH. 
Histiopterus elevatus Ramsay and Ogilby, Proce. Linn. Soe. 
N.S.W. (2) i1., 1888, p. 1811. Waite, Mem. Aust. Mus. iv., 
1899) p: 114, pl xxvi. 
Zanclistius elevatus Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxii., 1907, 
p. 236. 
Be vi. sD 71.28 52k 12 Vi sO Ga oli 
Among the sixteen species of fishes taken in the Bay of Plenty, 
after I left the vessel, is a single example of this fish, the first 
and only specimen known from New Zealand waters. As the 
number of the Station and the depth, etc., were not reported to 
me, I am unable to give a more exact locality. The length of the 
specimen is 300 mm. 
In 1903 I°8 published a note on the nomenclature of some 
members of the family Histiopteride, and mentioned that 
Pentaceros was not available for fishes, being preoccupied in the 
Asteroidea. Later, Jordan’9 proposed the name Quinquarius to 
replace Pentaceros, while more recently, writing with R. E. 
Richardson®° he states that ‘‘The name Pentaceros Cuvier and 
Valenciennes is apparently not preoccupied, as recently sup- 
(28) Waite, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (vii). 12, 1903, p. 288. 
(29) Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxii. 1907, p. 236. 
(30) Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus. iv. 1909, p. 192: 
