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14. Sebastes percoides, Sol. (Cat., p. 9) -PL-VHI 
15. Scorpena cruenta, Sol. (Cat., p. 10) PL VIH. 
29. Cyttus traversi, Hutton. (Cat; p: 19). Pl IX. 
Mr. W. Travers informs me that this fish was taken in a net in a tidal 
creek. When first caught it had a beautiful silvery appearance, and the 
filaments from the dorsal and ventral fins were very long, but have shrunk 
greatly since being put into spirits. 
3la. NEPTOMENUS BILINEATUS. sp. nov. C.M. 
PL VIL 
B6; D6|ğ; AZ; L. lat. 1209 
Length three and three quarter times that of the head, which is equal to 
the height of the body ; snout considerably longer than the diameter of the 
eye; posterior end of preoperculum straight, entire; operculum with an 
obtuse point over the shoulder. Scales small and deciduous ; a second line, 
but without pores, runs below the lateral line from a little above the point $ 
the operculum, and joins the lateral line at the end of the second dorsal. 
Pectorals pointed, not quite so long as the head, and not quite reaching to the 
vent. 
Back and sides pale violet, with minute black dots ; belly silvery ; tip of 
both dorsals and inside the pectorals blackish. 
Wellington harbour, November, 1872. 
This species approaches N. dobula from Tasmania, but differs from that 
Species in not having the anal spines detached, and in the proportion between 
the length and the height. In having apparently two lateral lines it 
resembles NV. travale (Castelnau) from Victoria, but differs considerably from 
that species. 
I will take this opportunity of correcting a mistake in my description of 
Neptomenus brama in the “ Catalogue of Fishes of New Zealand ;” the length 
should be two and three-fourths the height of the body, and not four and 
three-fourths as there stated. 
3lb. DITREMA VIOLACEA, sp. nov. C.M. 
PL VOL 
B. 41; D. 5; A z; Vej; P. 19; L. lat, 93; L. trans., 14/28. 
Length four times that of the head, or two and a half times the height of 
the body; snout rather longer than the diameter of the eye; teeth in villiform 
bands on both jaws, the vomer, and palatine bones ; upper profile convex ; 
