Hector.—Notes on New Zealand Ichthyology. 465 
Arr. LXII.— Notes on New Zealand Ichthyology. By James Hector, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th December, 1876.] 
BRAMA SQUAMOSA. 
PLAIS. 
D. 8-85, A. 2-29. 
Toxotes squamosus, Hutton, ** Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. VIIL, p. 210. 
Tue type of the above was presented to the Colonial Museum by Mr. W. T. 
L. Travers, F.L.S., but the second fresh specimen now figured shows that 
it must be referred to the genus Brama, on account of its general oval form 
and blunt profile; its subulate acute teeth, with a stronger second row in 
the lower jaw; long dorsal fin extending forwards to over vertical of the 
pectorals and ventrals, with three short feeble spines confluant with the soft 
dorsal, which, as also the canal, is enveloped in dense scute ; its moderate very 
oblique, almost vertical, gape, and dilated maxillary ; deeply-excised caudal 
fin, with elongate accuminate lobes. The genus Brama has been trans- 
fered in Dr. Giinther’s work from the Order Squamipennes to the Scom- 
beride, on account of the number of vertebral segments. As a species this 
fish differs very little from Ray's Bream (Brama rayi, Cuv.) 
(a) Dried specimen, Cook Strait, 1875 (Tylor). 
(b) Fresh specimen, stuffed, Wellington Harbour, 1875. 
Total length, 19 inches. 
CYTTUS ABBREVIA à - 
This small fish from the “ Challenger” collection, ascribed by me in 
error to the genus Platystethus,* should be referred to the genus Cyttus, 
although it differs from the other species of that genus in the possession of 
bony and spinous plates along the base of the dorsal and anal fins, as in 
Zeus, and in its non-protractile mouth. It will probably form the type of 
a new genus, but I provisionally place it with Cyttus until the *: Challenger ” 
collection has been published. 
UPENEICHTHYS VALMINGII. Cuv. and Vul. C.M. 
Upenoides valmingii, Cuv. Gimth., I., 400. 
Pl. IX. Fig. 5. 
Red Mullet. 
D. 1/7-9; A. 1/6; E.L. 29; L.T. 2/6. 
Length, 8$ times the height, which equals the length of head. Scales 
twice the vertical diameter of the eye, which is one-third the length of snout. 
First dorsal less in length of base than the second by the diameter of the 
eye. Base of second dorsal, length of pectoral and ventral, all equal to 
* “Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. VIL, p. 247, Pl. XI., Fig. 31e. 
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