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sides very flat; tail compressed flat; caudal fin large, rounded; eyes 
round; lips very thick and fleshy; cheeks fleshy; head, cheeks, gill-covers 
and throat, sealeless; body, sides and belly covered with small, smooth, 
close-set scales; fins thick; terminating membranes of spinous rays of 
dorsal and anal fins slightly produced in fleshy appendages; pectorals 
small, round; no simple rays to pectorals; anal with one spine and two 
rays only. 
Ground colour, brownish-grey, mottled with black; dorsal and anal fins 
with large black spot on rayed portion; base of spinous portion of dorsal 
with irregular blackish bands, and both dorsal and anal margined with 
black; summits of spinous appendages pink, with lower membrane imma- 
culate; two black streaks on cheeks. 
Collected and presented (with 5 of the same species) by Mr. J. N. 
Smyth, Jackson’s Bay, December, 1874. 
Lepidopus elongatus. Pl. XIV. 
B.6, D.155, P.12, V. {minute i eb 4.25, C.18. 
Total length, 27-6 inches; greatest depth, ^7 inch; width (at vent), '2 inch; vent, 
9:6 inches from tip of snout; 6:5 inches from end of head; diameter of eye, ‘5 inch. 
Body scaleless, but covered with a delicate, deciduous, silvery pigment, 
adhering to fingers on handling; length of gape 1 in.; body long, narrow, 
and compressed ; cheeks flat; dorsal fin long and low, extends from top of 
head above gill-opening to half an inch from base of caudal fin ; extreme 
height, near termination, almost equals half the depth of body; pectoral fins 
with lower rays longest, length 1 in.; ventral fins, minute rudimentary, 
placed in vertical with posterior termination base of pectorals ; length of 
anal 4:5 in., equals height of dorsal and terminates in vertical with end 
of same; caudal fin deeply forked; tail, before commencement of caudal, 
very slender and slightly carinated ; nostrils situate *2 in. in front of orbit, 
simple and single; gill-openings large ; mouth large, gape extends to under 
nostril; teeth in single row (eight in number) on each intermaxillary bone 
(laneet-shaped and inclined slightly forwards), five long recurved fangs at 
extreme end of upper jaw, two on each side and one at symphysis; on 
lower jaws, single row of incurved lancet-shaped teeth (eleven in number on 
each side) with two small recurved fangs at end of jaw; no teeth on tongue 
palate or vomer; pharyngeal teeth very fine, brush-like; lower jaw (at 
symphysis) praised in a strong conical point, or quasi- ere *5 in, in 
length ; lateral line strongly but evenly marked—yellow. 
Colour, a uniform bright metallie silver; fins, yellowish ; caudal with 
pinkish hue. 
Collected by self, Hokitika beach, 12th October, 1874, and the only 
perfect specimen of some eight or ten which have come under my observa- 
