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A comparison of my specimen with McCulloch’s description and plate shows 
they represent the same species, гаа being the first time it has been 
recorded from New Zealand. The two specimens examined by McCulloch 
are somewhat longer than the one ede me, being 232 mm. and 235 mm. 
respectively ; the difference in length is without doubt due to age only. 
ll the fins in this species seem to be subject to considerable variation. 
McCulloch says the pectoral may reach either to the base of the caudal, 
or only to the end of the dorsal; the ventrals also vary in length. The 
anal may be as long as or shorter than the dorsal, and both the latter fins 
may have either eleven or twelve rays each. 
Colour.—Deep ultramarine-blue above, the margins of the seales a little 
lighter. Sides bright ae ae origin of pectoral to origin of ventral. 
but their margins and lowermost rays pure white. Caudal dusky with 
lighter margins, the lower lobe a little очам than the upper. Eye bright 
silver and blue-black. 
I have to thank Mr. A. R. McCulloch for the privilege of using his fine 
plate of this ре which is taken from the publication noted at the head 
of this descriptio: 
Locality and ‘Distribution. Sed of Plenty, Auckland District, June, 1921 ; 
Port Hacking, New South Wales 
Cypselurus melanocercus Ogilby. Large Flying-fish. (Plate 22.) 
Exocoetus melanocerus Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 10, 
p. 123, 1885. 
ПЕРОН; A iX; У.т: Р. xi; 
About 62 scales between the ы. and the middle caudal. rays. 
Depth before the ventrals 5$ in the length to the hypural joint, head 5 
n the same. Eye 31 in the head and equal to the length of the snout. 
Тего space 13 times the diameter of the eye. 
Dorsal surface from the top of the operculum to within 30 mm. of the 
origin of the dorsal fin straight, flat. Ventral surface evenly curved from 
the chin to the caudal peduncle. The latter is long, narrow; its length 
subequal to the distance from the tip of snout to the centre of the oper- 
culum, and its median width subequal to that of the orbit. The whole body 
and head, with the exception of the tip of snout, top of preorbital, lips, and 
chin, covered with rather large highly deciduous cycloid scales, those on the 
sides of the head being extremely thin, and those from the dorsal fin to the 
caudal getting gradually smaller than those anterior to the dorsal fin. From 
the operculum to the origin of the dorsal the scales are nearly all of uniform 
ize 
Lateral line very low on the sides, somewhat indistinct anteriorly, very 
pronounced behind the ventrals, and reaching to the lower caudal lobe. 
Upper surface of the head broad, a little convex between the eyes. The 
snout curves downward slightly to the premaxillary. Nostril, a large single 
opening near the top of the snout, and situated much nearer the eye than 
the tip of snout. Eye large, placed near the top of the head. Preorbital 
broad, rather more than half the width of the eye. Maxillary very small, 
and completely hidden beneath the preorbital when the mouth is closed. 
Mandible very short, reaching backward as far as the middle of the pre- 
orbital. Teeth in the jaws minute, in villiform bands; none on the vomer, 
