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length and both claspers are almost wholly furnished with short spines 
directed backwards. геме, Mid little shorter than the subcaudal, 
and about equal to it in height; the caudal filament is rather longer than 
the distance between tip of the Tie and per of the pelvic fin. 
The lateral line forms first à concave, then a convex curve above a 
pectoral, and thence continues along the side slightly above the mid 
of the height by a series of very short waves until it reaches the binder 
angle of the second dorsal. It then bends downward to the lower margin 
of the caudal axis, and extends along the filament until it is lost. The 
anterior portion of the lateral line system has several conspicuous ramifi- 
cations about the head. Commencing at the postorbital junction with 
that of the body, it ром over ei eye to the first line of pores on the 
upper part of the snout. A lower branch from the postorbital junction 
passes below the eye ad unites with the middle line of rostral pores, and 
sends off two branch lines below the posterior border of the eye; the 
hinder branch reaches downward over the gill-cover, and the anterior one 
is directed towards the angle of the mouth. There is also a short branch 
line across the nape, which unites with the interorbital lines on each side, 
and forms an angle on the median line. 
Colour.—Ground-colour cream, marbled with purplish-brown. A double 
line of bluish-white spots above the eye from the nape to the base of the 
snout. Light-buff blotches and spots of various гада occur at short 
intervals along the margin of the back. Lateral line dull white. First 
are blackish-brown with a broad mesial white band. Second dorsal with 
a small dark patch on its anterior rays, and thence broadly margined with 
black, the bases of the rays much lighter. Caudal rays uniform blackish- 
brown; the filament white. Pectoral and pelvic fins brownish-grey. Eye 
silver-white and blue-black. Horny cap on top of the head cream in 
colour, streaked with brown. 
escribed from a male specimen, 442 mm. long from tip of snout to 
end o supracaudal; the filament is 246 mm. long. 
all, five specimens have been examined, of which four are females 
The pesen is 563 mm. long without the caudal filament, the latter being 
210 mm. long. 
Locality —Trawled in the Tasman Sea, nine miles to the north of 
Kaipara Heads, within the Auckland Provincial District, July, 1921. 
Family MYRIDAE. 
Genus MuRAENICHTHYS Bleeker. 
Muraenichthys australis Macleay. (Plate 20, fig. 1.) 
Мике australis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, 
, 1881; McCulloch, Biol. Res. “ Endeavour” [уо]. 1], pt. 1, 
p. 30 fig. 6, 191. 
Body cylindrical, vermiform, slender, its depth behind the gill-opening 
about 4 in the head and j5 of the to tal length. The head rather more 
than 5 in the trunk and nearly yẹ in the total length. Eye small, 3 in. 
the snout, the latter being broad, obtusely pointed, and 4$ in the head. 
Cleft of mouth extends behind the eye, the distance from its angle to the 
posterior margin of the orbit being 1j times the diameter of the eye. 
Anterior nostrils in a tube placed near the tip of the snout, and provided 
