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thick, and fleshy; cavity of mouth enormous; the intestine must be very 
short and digestion capable of being carried on within the mouth itself, as 
on opening same the cavity seems almost to extend to anus; skin slimy 
and soft; fins and fin-rays thick and fleshy ; eyes very small, covered with 
the common skin ; nostrils small tubular ; cheeks solid. 
Inches 
otal length oa ue R e $e T IU VT 
Greatest breadth (immediately before peetorals) .. coco 
idth of mouth .. Ae T P = s db 
Diameter of eye .. 25 is ee x x cv BT 
Height of dorsal .. E $s «d x as ve a: 
Length s Am cx EM E i: i > 2:8 
Height ofanal  .. c. ve +e v. ve a Do 
Length Š n is ; is m e dw PS 
» Of pectoral = ee +s ey p il p 
caudal 2:2 
Bony shaft of compound aptemdigo à — of pides gland covered 
with minute striate-based spines; chin solid, square, and projecting. 
Inches. 
Height of shaft of appendage .. i: es iw M ui 
Diameter of capsular gland ie as :3 s. ». | a | 
Length of longest tentacle a 
Ground colour greyish, mottled with light Mut B with dark brown ; 
appendage brown, mottled with darker, tentacles dark brown with white 
tips. Eye, iris grey, pupil black. Fins greyish. 
Arr. XXXI.—WNotes on Regalecus pacificus, a new Species of Ribbon Fish 
from the New Zealand Seas. By Jurivs von Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Plate VII. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 15th December, 1876.] 
Mns. George Oram, of New Brighton, kindly informed me on the evening of 
May the 7th of this year (1876), that in the morning of that day a gigantic 
frost-fish had been found on the beach near the hotel, to which it had been 
brought, and that she would be very glad if I would come and inspect it. 
The next morning I proceeded there, and found the specimen in question, 
with a few minor exceptions, in a splendid state of preservation; and as 
that lady has kindly presented it to the Museum, I am not only able to offer 
a description of this remarkable fish, but my friend Dr. L. Powell, F.L.S., 
has also prepared a careful drawing, and offers in an appendix a few 
remarks on its anatomy and on the results of a microscopical examination 
of its so-called scales, 
