286 Transactions. —Zoology. 
5. Regalecus banksti, Illustrated London News, June 2, 1849, p. 884, 
5 Gray, loc. cit.: copies of two original drawings in 
me È | Bir J. Banks's copy of Pennant's Zoology. 
8. 33 » (2) (Gymnetrus hawkinsii), Bloch, « Naturgeschichte 
der auslendischen Fische," xii., pl. 425 (copied 
by Yarrell, op. cit., p. 302). 
9. " » Lütken, “ Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den natur- 
historiske Forening " for 1881, p. 190. 
10.  ,  glesne, Ascanius, ** Icones Rerum Naturalium," pl. 11. 
E » Schneider, * M. E. Blochii Systema Ichthyologiwe,” 
i pl. 88 (copied by Yarrell, op. cit., p. 301). 
3 ys » “ Encyclopédie Méthodique,” fig. 858. 
18.  , grilli, Lindroth, Vet. Akad. handl., pl. 8. 
14.  , russellii, Shaw, ** General Zoology," iv., pl. 98. 
15.*  ,, pacificus, Haast, loc. cit., pl. 7. 
” 
The specimen from which the following description is taken was cast 
ashore at Moeraki, about 40 miles north of Dunedin, on the 14th of June. 
It was purchased by a fisherman, who, previously to bringing it to Dunedin 
for exhibition, cut it into four pieces for convenience of transit! After it had 
been exhibited for two or three days I was able to secure it for the Museum. 
As the specimen was thus wantonly injured, and was moreover by no 
All the species of Regalecus are distinguished by their great length in 
length varies from 1 : 24 (R. telum) to 1:11 (R. pacificus): in the Moeraki 
specimen this proportion is as 1 : 10, the total length being 124 feet, and 
the greatest height 15-25 inches, so that the fish is higher in proportion to 
its length than any former specimen, ` 
The length of the head varies from 15th of the total length (R. gladius 
and pacificus) to ¿th (R. banksii); in my specimen the head is 7th the 
length of the whole body, being 9 inches long with the jaws retracted. 
In correspondence with the great length of the fish, the number of rays 
in the continuous dorsal fin is very considerable: it varies from 184 (8/126) 
in R. glesne to 406 in R. grilli. In the present specimen the number is 
