260 Transactions.— Zoology. 
D: 22; A$; V.2; L lat, 56; L trans, 5/14. 
Length three and one-third times that of the head, or three times the height 
of the body ; six simple pectoral rays projecting beyond the membrane ; fifth 
the longest, reaching to the perpendicular from the fifteenth or sixteenth 
dorsal spine ; the lower rays graduated ; branched rays simply divided only ; 
sixth and seventh dorsal spines nearly equal and longest; the third anal 
spine longer than the second; scales rugose ; lips very thick and fleshy ; 
opercles with small scales ; nostrils large, close together, the anterior with an 
appendage behind. 
Brownish orange, with traces of six transverse bands of darker; soft 
dorsal, anal, caudal, and tips of ventrals blackish ; lips and throat grey ; 
belly silvery. 
Total length of the specimen 24 inches. 
13a. MENDOSOMA LINEATA, Forst. C.M. 
Pl 
Scicena lineata, Forst. Latris lineata, Rich., “Dieff. N.Z.,” TI., 209. M. lineatum, 
Gay, “ Hist. Chile,” Zool., II., 213; Günther, “ Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus.” 
IL, 85. ZL. lineata, Hector, “ Cat. Col. Mus.,” p. 83. 
B, 6; D Ss À. Š; P H: V.4; L. Jat., 65 ; L. trans., 6/17. 
Length four times that of the head, or three and a quarter times the height 
of the body ; compressed ; snout produced, going rather more than two and a 
half times into the length of the head; upper profile concave ; interorbital space 
flat, one and a half times the diameter of the eye, which is one-fifth of the 
length of the head ; top of the head above the eyes hollowed ; lower jaw 
shorter ; maxillary arched, with an obtuse angle on the superior margin ; 
inter-maxillary with a swelling in the centre on the upper and outer margin ; 
mouth very protractile ; a few minute teeth on the centre of the upper jaw, 
none on the lower ; cheeks, opercles, and top of the head, as far as the tip of 
the snout, covered with small scales ; preeoperculum and operculum entire, the 
upper margin of the latter sinuated ; dorsal single, deeply notched, the sixth 
to the ninth spines nearly equal and longest, about one-third the length of the 
head, and equal to the anterior portions of the soft dorsal, and anal; anal 
spines moderate. 
Above dark olivaceous grey, more or less marbled with blue; sides greenish 
silvery, with many thin olivaceous brown longitudinal stripes ; belly greyish 
silvery ; fins olivaceous. 
is specimen, which was 14 inches in total length, was taken in Cook 
Strait, lst August, 1872. Dr. Hector also obtained it in Milford Sound 
in 1863. 
A drawing of the head is also given with the mouth protruded. 
