308 ~ Transactions.—Zoology. 
Art. XLIL.— Additions to the List of New Zealand Fishes. 
By. T. W. Kg, Assistant in the Colonial Museum. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 10th January, 1880.) 
Ix October last I received notice that a Turtle had been found at Island 
Bay, near Wellington, but, on reaching the spot, was greatly disappointed 
to find that the person who discovered it had not been sufficiently careful to 
secure his prize, which had consequently been washed away by the next 
tide; however, I was recompensed by finding specimens of three fish, men- 
tioned below, none of which had previously been obtained on the New 
Zealand coast, though they are all found in Australia. 
Atypus strigatus, Günth. 
Günth. II., p. 64. 
The genus Atypus was created 
by Dr. Günther specially for the 
reception of this beautiful little 
fish, which he mentions very 
minutely. The following is his 
description :— 
B. 7. D. 7245. L. lat. 70-75; L. trans. He 
“The general form of the body is that of a species of Therapon; it is 
compressed, oblong, its greatest height below the fifth dorsal spine being 
one-third of the total length. The upper profile descends obliquely down- 
wards to the end of the snout, ina very slightly curved line. The length 
of the head is four-and-a-half in the total length ; the extent of the snout 
is less than the diameter of the eye, or the space between the orbits, which 
is slightly convex. The cleft of the mouth is small, the upper maxillary 
+ reaching to the anterior margin of the orbit. The preoperculum is nearly 
as wide as high, with the lower margin rounded and very slightly serrated. 
No pores are visible at or between the pieces of the mandibule. The eye 
is of moderate size. The preoperculum is rather deeply serrated round its 
margins, the denticulations being longest at the angle, which is a right one. 
The operculum is not armed. All the head is covered with very small 
scales. The dorsal fin begins in a vertical drawn from between the bases 
of the peetoral and ventral fins, and terminates at a distance from the 
caudal which equals that between the eye aud the posterior margin of the 
operculum. The upper margin of the fin has no notch between the two 
portions, and its profile descends gradually from the fifth spine to the termi- 
nation of the fin. The spines are of moderate strength, broader on one 
