GuntHER.—Remarks on New Zealand Fishes. 471 
CREPIDOGASTER HECTORIS. 
Snout flattened, not produced, its length being not quite twice the 
diameter of the eye, or equal to the width of the interorbital space. The 
length of the head is two-sevenths of the total (without caudal). Caudal 
peduncle slender, longer than the caudle fin, the short dorsal and anal 
being widely separated from the latter fin. Ventral sucker small, not 
broader than long. Red. 
One specimen from the southern shore of Cook Strait, 26 lines long; 
presented by Dr. Hector, C.M.G. 
Labrichthys celidota, Forst. 
The specimens described by the New Zealand naturalists as L. psittacula 
are not the Australian species so named by Richardson; they appear to me 
to be the adult of L. celidota, in which the dark lateral spot has disappeared 
or is disappearing. The true L. psittacula has one and a-half series of 
scales between the lateral line and dorsal fin ; L. celidota two and a-half. 
Bregmaceros punctatus. 
In a small collection of fishes from Cook Strait, received from Dr. 
Hector, I have found an example of the interesting fish described by Capt. 
Hutton as Calloptilum punctatum.* I do not think that it should be generic- 
ally separated from B. macclellandii, the actual separation ofthe soft dorsal 
into two fins being evidently an individual character, as in our specimen 
the two portions are connected by intermediate rudimentary rays. A 
similar interruption, though much less perfect, can be seen also in the anal 
fin. In the latter fin I count 57 rays, and in the anterior portion of the 
dorsal 22, Capt. Hutton giving them respectively as 44 and 11. The long 
isolated ray in front of the anal, shown in the figure given by Capt. Hutton, 
is not present in our specimen. I have also to add that minute teeth are 
present in both jaws, and that the gill-membranes are separate to the chin. 
Rhombosolea tapirina, Gthr. 
We have received from Capt. Hutton, under this name, a specimen with 
the eyes on the left side, and with two ventrals. I believe that he is right 
in considering it to be merely an accidental variety, the development of a 
second ventral being in connexion with the reversal of the sides. 
SCOPELUS HECTORIS. 
D. 12; A. 16; L. lat. 89. 
The height of the body is two-ninths of the total length (without caudal), 
the length of the head two-sevenths. The least depth of the tail is less 
than half the height of the body. Eye rather large, two-sevenths of the 
* * Trans. N.Z. Institute," V., 267, pl. 11. 
