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from under his feet sufficiently to sink him to the chest, and in 
this situation I photographed him (Plate vi., fig. 1).’’ 
At the final Station charted by me, 1178 Schnapper were 
taken in the net, but later hauls were even more productive, as 
the following records, taken from the official report, will 
indicate : “Upwards of 2 tons of fish, mostly large Schnapper, 
were taken at Station 102.’’ At Station 103 a similar number 
was obtained, while at Station 104, 2250 Schnapper were 
netted. Station 106 yielded about 2000 examples. Although I 
examined several thousand specimens during the cruise, I did 
not find a single example in which the large humps on the snout 
or back, so characteristic of the New South Wales ‘‘Old Man 
Schnapper’’ were in any way indicated, though specimens quite 
as large as Australian individuals were secured. 
In New South Wales the Schnapper is usually taken, on rough 
or rocky bottoms, in fact the line fishermen sometimes speak of 
such areas as ‘‘Schnapper ground.”’ 
The fish is by no means confined to such situations in the 
seas around New Zealand, but, on the contrary, appeared rather 
to favour clean ground, for the great hauls of Schnapper pre- 
viously mentioned, were taken on clean sandy flats. 
It is doubtless largely a matter of food. Remains of molluscs 
were generally found in the stomachs. together with indetermin- 
able fishes; on one occasion, namely, at Station 95, in the Bay of 
Plenty, two examples of Cepola aotea were taken from the 
stomachs of Schnappers. 
Family LABRIDAS. 
PSEUDOLABRUS Bleeker, 1861. 
The following is a synopsis of the New Zealand species of the 
genus, the fin formule being:—D. ix. 11; A. i. 10; V.i. 5. 
a. Seales on cheeks in five or more rows. 
b. Dark markings on body. 
e. Dark spots on or above the lateral line — celidotus. 
ec. A black bar across the body MA cunctus. 
bb. No dark markings on body .. oe coccineus. 
aa. Seales on cheeks in less than five rows 
d. Six dark transverse bars on body pittensis. 
dd. Two or three longitudinal bands on 
body .. se laticlavius. 
ddd. No dark markings on body or fuscicola. 
