248 WAITE 
new name to the smaller eyed, longer snouted, and longer raved 
form taken on the west coast, and have figured specimens of each. 
Family BLENNIIDA. 
TRIPTERYGION Risso, 1826. 
TRIPTERYGION VARIUM Forster. 
Blennius varius Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth, 
TS01e sp. 178: 
Station 48. 
Living examples were trawled in Pegasus Bay in 44 to 46 
fathoms, and at the same time specimens were taken from the 
stomach of a Trumpeter (Latris lineatus). I have recently 
described specimens taken at the Auckland Islands.4% 
Family OPHIDITIDA. 
GENYPTERUS Philippi, 1857. 
GENYPTERUS BLACODES Bloch and Schneider. 
LING. 
Ophidium blacodes Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth, 1801, 
p. 484. 
Stations 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 
19, 21, 22 26, 27, 29 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38 30, am 
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 61, 62, 
65, 66, 67, 77, 78, 86. 
Represented in almost every haul from Stewart Island to 
Gisborne and at depths from 9 to 183 fathoms, this species was 
more plentifully taken at the southern Stations. At Half-moon 
Bay, Stewart Island, the Ling was commonly seen swimming 
round the piles of the jetty in four feet of water: it was also 
represented in the hauls made at the Chatham Islands. I have 
previously (p. 54) referred to the extreme buoyancy of this fish 
when drawn to the surface, remarking that when the air bladder 
and tissues are distended it resembles an elongated barrel, and 
comparatively few are required to float the net and its contents. 
Cephalopods, crustaceans, eels and other fishes were commonly 
removed from the stomachs, while all the examples netted at 
Station 7 in 43 fathoms had the intestinal tract crowded with 
the crustacean Munida gregaria. 
(48) Waite, ‘‘ Subantarctic Islands of N.Z.’’ 1909, p. 597. 
