Hurron.—Contributions to the Ichthyology of New Zealand. 217 
January, 1876. It agrees very well with the figure given by Gray in ** Ann. 
Nat. Hist.,” Vol. I.; but differs slightly in some of the details of the fins and 
proportion, as given both by Gray and Giinther. The head is of the same 
size and proportions as the one in the Colonial Museum, described in the 
“Trans, N.Z. Inst.,’’ Vol. IL., p. 18. 
The total length from the end of the snout to the end of the central 
portion of the caudal-fin was nine feet eight inches. The height of the 
body is rather less than half the length of the head, and about one-sixth of 
the total. The length of the upper jaw from the nostrils is five-eighths of 
the length of the head. The fin formula is :— 
D. 36, A. a/6, V. 1. 
In all other ke it agrees with the description in Dr. Giinther’s 
catalogue, 
The back and sides are dark slate-blue, the belly whitish. The follow- 
ing are the principal dimensions :— 
Feet. Inches. 
Length 9 8 
Snout 2 4 
Head 3 6 
Snout to scala, 2 2 
we 79> 8ape 2 8 
Lower jaw to gape 1 4 
Length of ventrals 1 24 
Height of dorsal 1 3 
Diameter of eye 0 23 
Interorbital space Oo At 
1 7 
Height of body 
The skin is preserved in the Otago Musdiva: 
ECHENEIS BRACHYPTERA. Low 
A specimen of this fish was obtained on ‘iin Sword Fish just mentioned. 
D. 16125, A. 23. 
The length of the disk goes four times into the total length, and the 
width of the body between the pectorals eight times; the caudal is very 
slightly crescentic, and the upper jaw is angular. The colour was uniform 
slate blue, and the total length of the specimen 54-inches. It is preserved 
in the Otago Museum. 
DINEMATICHTHYS CONSOBRINUS. sr. nov. 
D. 75, A. 45, 6; 14. 
Height of the body not quite equal to the length of the head, two-ninths 
of the length of the body. Ventrals one-sixth of the total length. Snout, 
obtuse, longer than the eye, which is small, Nostrils, = half the 
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