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length of the head, or one-half of its distance from the end of the oper- 
culum. Posterior margin of the preoperculum obliquely descending back- 
wards. Snout very short, obtuse, with the lower jaw searcely projecting. 
Cleft of the mouth slightly oblique. "The maxillary reaches to the angle of 
the preoperculum, and is scarcely dilated behind. Origin of the dorsal fin 
nearer to the end of the snout than to the root of the caudal, above the 
root of the ventral ; its last ray is just in front of the vertical from the first 
anal ray. Pectoral fin short, scarcely reaching the ventral. Scales per- 
fectly smooth, those of the lateral line rather smaller than the others. 
One specimen 2} inches long, from the southern side of Cook Strait, 
New Zealand; presented by Dr. Hector, C.M.G. 
Maurolicus amethystino-punctatus, Cocco. 
Having seen a specimen of M. australis, described by Dr. Hector in 
** Trans, N.Z. Institute," VIL, p. 250, and presented by him to the British 
Museum, I believe it to be identical with the Mediterranean species named 
by Cocco. The number of fin-rays is difficult to ascertain whenever the 
specimens are not well preserved; but the New Zealand specimen appears 
to agree with the European species also in this respect, 
Syngnathus blainvillianus. (Eyd. and S.) 
Of this fish, which hitherto has been found on the west eoast of South 
America only, we have received an example from Cook Strait, New Zealand, 
through Dr. Hector. 
Arr. LXIV.—Notes on New Zealand Crustacea. By. James Hecror, 
MD F.L.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th December, 1876.] 
Tux publication of the Catalogue of our Crustacea* has led to the revision 
of the collection in the Colonial Museum, and the deteetion of several new 
species, one of which I have now to record. 
The only previously published list of the Crustacea of the New Zealand 
area is that given by the late Dr. Gray in the Appendix to Deiffenbach's 
work, and as that list enumerates only nineteen species, whilst the catalogue 
describes 140 species, some idea may be formed of the extensive addition 
which has been made to our knowledge of this interesting order, chiefly due 
to the American, French, and Austrian expeditions that have visited these 
shores. At the same time many species are recorded as from New Zealand 
which are unknown to local collectors, so that it is possible that the list 
* “ Catalogue of the Stalk and Sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand,” by E. J. 
Miers, F.L.8., London, 1876, 136 pp., 3 plates. Prepared and published for the Colonial 
Museum and Geological Survey Department, 
