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PLUMULARIA BANKSII. 
P. banksii, Gray, “ Dief. N.Z.,” IL, 294. 
Hydrosoma irregularly branched, composed of several tubes; branches 
alternately closely pinnate; pinne leaning to one side; reddish-brown, 
Hydrothece approximated, seated in the axil of a double incurved spinous 
process ; aperture with an obtuse tooth on each side. Ovarian cells —? 
Lyall Bay. (F.W.H.) A single specimen only. 
Art. XX VIII.—Contributions to the Ichthyology of New Zealand. 
By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S., C.M.ZS. 
(With Illustrations.) 
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[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 28th August, 1872.] 
1.* Oligorus gigas, Owen. (Cat., p. 1.) 
This fish is no doubt the same as Sciæna gadoides of Dr. Solander, Perca 
prognathus of G. R. Forster, and Polyprion cernuum of Richardson, in 
Dieffenbach’s “ New Zealand,” II., 206. By the rule of priority, therefore, 
it should be called Oligorus gadoides. 
4. Scorpis hectori, Hutton. (Cat., p. 4.) Pl VIL 
A fresh specimen of this fish, caught in the Bay of Plenty, having been 
brought to the Colonial Museum enables me to correct and add to my former 
description. 
B.6; Dt; A.2; V.2; P. 17; L. lat, 67; L trans., 7/25. 
Teeth on the vomer, palatine bones, and tongue ; cleft of the mouth very 
oblique; maxillary much expanded and truncated at the end, extending to the 
vertical from the middle of the eye; sixth dorsal spine the longest, less than 
half the length of the head, second anal spine very strong; scales finely 
serrated ; caudal forked. 
Uniform rose pink, passing into pale grey on the body. 
Total length of the specimen, 17} inches. : 
11. Chilodactylus spectabilis, Hutton. (Cat., p. 8.) Pl. VII. 
A fresh specimen of this fish having been brought to the Colonial Museum, 
I am enabled to give a better description of it than that in the “ Catalogue 
of New Zealand Fishes,” which was drawn up from a specimen that had been 
preserved in carbolic acid and dried. : 
* The numbers refer to those in the ‘‘ Cat. of Fishes of New Zealand.” Geol. Dept., 
N.Z., 1872, the additional species being in large type. 
