216 Transactions.—Zoology. 
STIGMATOPHORA LONGIROSTRIS. Hutton. 
Specimens obtained i in Dunedin Harbour were sometimes of a brilliant 
green colour. 
SCYLLIUM LATICEPS. Dumeril. 
uring a cruise in the West Coast Sounds, in March, 1874, a specimen 
of this fish was caught in Dusky Bay, and it is now preserved in the Otago 
Museum. This, therefore, confirms my identification of this species from 
Mr. Buchanan’s sketch in the Colonial Museum. 
RAJA NASUTA. Solander. 
Snout long and pointed, the interorbital space being less than one-third of 
the distance from the eye to the end of the snout. Anterior profile, concave; 
but with a convex sinuosity situated rather nearer the snout than the angle 
of the pectoral. Teeth in eight or nine series in the upper jaw. The male 
is rarer than the female, and apparently always much smaller. A specimen 
obtained last May, from Oamaru, is yellowish-white above, and white below, 
with distant black spots, which are more numerous towards the anterior 
end. 
Female: Length of body, 24-inches; of tail, 17-inches; breadth, 31- 
inches. 
Male: Length of body, 17-inches; of tail, 18-inches; breadth, 18- 
inches. 
TRYGON BREVICAUDATA. sp. nov. 
T, thalassia (?) Hutton. “ Cat Fish, N.Z.,” p. 85, non Columna. 
Female; disc, rather broader than long; the anterior margin forming 
a very obtuse angle, which is interrupted by a short projection of the snout. 
Body smooth. A single small oval tubercle in the centre of the back. Tail 
not longer than the body, with a cutaneous fold along the lower side, and 
no upper ridge; armed with two serrated spines, the anterior of which is 
the smaller, and in front of these a row of large ossifications. Sides of the 
tail, with smaller stellate ossifications. Brown above, whitish below. 
Length of disc, 44-inches ; breadth, 48-inches ; tail, 82-inches. 
Dunedin Harbour. Type in the Otago Museum. 
The end of the tail of this specimen is broken off; but it is probable that 
it only extended a few inches further. 
The tail described in the “ Cat. Fishes of N.Z.,” p. 85, may probably 
belong to a male of this species. 
GEOTRIA CHILENSIS. Gray. 
This species has a broad band of green down each side of the back; the 
median line and the whole of the lower surface being pale brownish-white. 
HISTIOPHONUS HERSCHELLII. Gray. 
A specimen of this fish was caught in Dunedin ‘Harbour on the 17th 
