368 MR. GC. TATE REGAN ON THE FISHES [Nov. 28, 
3. GALAXIAS ATTENUATUS. (Plates XII. fig. 1, and XIIT. fig. 2.) 
Mesites attenuatus Jenyns, Zool. ‘ Beagle,’ Fish. p. 121, pl. xxii. 
fig. 5 (1842). 
Galaxias truttacews (non Cuy.) Valence. in Cuv. Régne Anim., 
Poiss. pl. xevii. fig. 2 (1829). 
Galaxias scriba Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xviii. p. 347 (1846); 
Richards. Zool. ‘ Erebus’ & ‘ Terror,’ Fish. p. 66 (1848); Giinth. 
Cat. Fish. vi. p. 212 (1866). 
Galaxias attenuatus Cuv. & Val.t.c. p. 348; Giinth. t.c. p. 210; 
Hutton, Fish. N. Zeal. p. 60, pl. x. fig. 96 (1872); Klunz. Sitzb. 
Ak. Wien, lxxx. 1879, p. 412; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. 
Wales, vi. 1881, p. 230; Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 
1882, p. 130; Hutton, Trans. New Zealand Inst. xxviii. 1896, 
p. 317; Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, xxi. 1896, p. 71; 
Clarke, Trans. New Zealand Inst. xxxi. 1899, p. 78. 
Galaxias maculatus (non Jenyns) Richards. t. c. p. 75, pl. xlii. 
figs. 14-17. 
Galaxias minutus Philippi, Arch. f. Nat. 1858, vol. xxiv. i. p. 309. 
Galaxias kreftit Giinth. t. c. p. 211. 
Galaxias punctatus Giinth. t. c. p. 212. 
Galoxias waterhousei Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 943; 
Klunz. 1. ¢. 
Galaxias cylindricus Casteln. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1. 1872, 
p. 177; Macleay, t. c. p. 235. 
Galaxias delicatulus Casteln. t. c. p. 178; Macleay, 1. c. 
Galaxias campbelli Sauv. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iv. 1880, p. 229. 
Galaxias nebulosa Macleay, t. c. p. 234. 
Galaxias alpinus (part.), Smitt, Bih. Svenska Ak. xxvi. iv. 
No. 13, p. 21, pl. ui. figs. 9-12 (1901). 
Teeth in the jaws subequal, without distinct enlarged canines. 
Depth of body 54-10 in the length, length of head 5-63. Snout 
a little longer than eye (in the adult), the diameter of which is 3 
(young)-5 in the length of head, interorbital width 27-23. Jaws 
equal anteriorly ; maxillary extending about to the vertical from 
anterior margin of eye ora little beyond. 6 or 7 branchiostegals. 
9-11 gill-rakers on the lower part of the anterior arch. Dorsal 
10-13 (III-IV 7-9); distance from origin of dorsal to base of 
caudal 32? (young)-44 in the length of the fish. Anal 16-19 (III-V 
12-15), commencing below the origin of dorsal. Pectoral ex- 
tending from less than 3 to more than 2 of the distance from its 
base to the base of ventral. Ventrals 7-rayed, originating at a 
point about equidistant from tip of snout and base of caudal or 
from base or anterior part of pectoral and origin of anal, extending 
less than + of the distance from their base to the origin of anal. 
Caudal slightly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 14-2 as long as 
deep. Golden or orange; upper parts of head and body finely 
punctulated with blackish and spotted or marbled with dark 
purplish ; fins immaculate. 
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