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CLARKE.—Ûn two new Fishes. 945 
mottled band above, and a series of luminous spots before caudal and over 
anal fins ; eyes, iris dark blue, pupil black; fins almost immaculate. 
es, 
Total length xs is T T v vs «5423 
Total depth = s Es TA ey Ae «a VOU 
Length of body .. ate ee ey is e. we O60 
Longest diameter of eye .. s x s T i. 7014 
Shortest do. docu Kk pi si x i5 009 
Length ofhead  .. 3 v im 
Distance from posterior margin of aia covers $s pe ott tail.. 
Specimen was collected on beach, Hokitika, 28th, October, dt after 
heavy gales; other fishes obtained at same time belonged to genera Cyttus, 
Maurolicus, Gonostomus and Scopelus, and a pelagic crustacean, Phronima 
nove-zealandia.”’ 
Family, Pediculati. 
Nov. genus, ÆGŒONICHTHYS. 
Head and body excessively large, broad, and depressed ; tail very short ; 
mouth exceedingly wide and vertical; supra-orbital bones produced into 
heavy ridges, divergent posteriorly, covered with the common skin and 
terminating in a small strong spine directed upwards; between ridges a 
deep groove in which is situated over head a compound appendage capable 
of movement in an almost universal manner and with a thick, pear-shaped, 
muscular base, bony shaft, surmounted with a semispherical capsular gland, 
from the back and upper margin of which arise one simple, one double- 
branched and two compound-branched fleshy tentacles, terminating at free 
ends of branches in white shining vermiform tips ; the front of the capsular 
gland is covered with a silvery or nacreous integument with aperture in 
centre connected with interior and surrounded with a black ring ; body and 
tail armed with broad-based conical spines ending in fine points; one short 
dorsal and short anal each terminating close to caudal and placed far back ; 
pectorals small and but imperfectly pediculated ; teeth in both jaws very 
numerous, in various rows, and of unequal lengths, they are slightly 
recurved, flat, sharp-pointed with cutting edges, moving freely in socket 
when pressed in direction of interior of mouth but perfectly rigid in opposite 
direction ; the teeth in pharynx short and recurved, and in clusters on 
branchiostegals ; gill openings in axille and partly on under surface of body. 
Habitat—Seas of New Zealand. 
ZEGCEONICHTHYS AFER, sp. nov. 
D. 5 17. A 1; Ua 
Spines more numerous on R notes than on sides or back ; inside 
the mouth at the back of the teeth (upper and lower jaws) is a black tough 
fleshy flap extending from one side to the other; tongue immensely broad, 
