ÁnrHUR.—Ón New Zealand Fishes. 169 
with convex posterior margin, rays branched. Lateral line detached in two 
portions. Colour, head, trunk and fins mottled with patches of dull red on 
a yellow ground ; most of the fin-rays variegated like tortoiseshell, forming 
altogether a prettily-marked fish. Seales cycloid and adherent, cheeks 
naked. This individual was a gravid female, its eggs, of a yellow colour and 
in size like sago piles, were protruding from the vent. Stomach continuous . 
with intestine and both curved about the abdominal cavity; air-bladder 
simple. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
ius length .. a v. oe ES al 
gth E ps e: Rn 6:8 
s i ws ap v vac S 
Least depth of tail $5 ap a ps | a i 
Head re ee d oe ee 
Diameter of eye m m zie uri Oe 
Eye from snout 
orsal  ,, 11; length 53 
Pectoral ” 19 ” 
Ventral ,, 1-4 e ro 
E 8:5 5p 9E 
8 
6: 
This rm although gay in een s, is os E of value as a food 
fish locally. 
A specimen beautifully preserved in its native tints by Professor Parker's 
glycerine process is at present in Otago Museum 
References.—Trans. N-Z. Inst., vol. v., p. 263; vol. viii., p. 214. 
CANTHOPTERYGII PHARYNGOGNATHI. 
amily Lasrmæ.  ** Wrasses.” 
Odas vittatus, Bol., variety. de xiv., fig. 7. 
D.85; P. 15; V.4; À.15; O. H: 
A specimen brightly-coloured of this fish des off Otago Heads, May 
9th, 1884, was given me by Mr. A. K. Smith, fishmonger, Dunedin. The 
fish is occasionally caught, although not numerous seemingly, about our 
coast. I have called it a variety, as it differs from Professor Hutton’s 
described specimens in the greater length of the tail portion from the dorsal 
to the caudal fin, and also in its colours. As to the latter, I must observe 
that none of the few individuals I have seen agree closely in colour, so that 
as a distinctive mark of this fish, that is not of much use evidently. 
Form.—Head triangular, lips fleshy and movable, jaws each with a 
band of white confluent teeth forming rather formidable cutting edges, 
gape very small and contracted. Hindmargin of opercula pointed into. two 
blunt angles, one forming posterior extremity of operculum, and the other 
