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flesh on it. I have named it in honour of Dr. A. Günther, F.R.S., without 
whose previous labours it would have been impossible’ for me to have drawn 
up my “ Catalogue of the New Zealand Fishes.” 
83a. RHOMBOSOLEA LEPORINA, Gunth. C.M. 
; POALE 
R. leporina, Giinth. “Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.,” IV., p. 460. 
Bo Doos A. d2; Ve P. 42. 
Length three and a half times that of the head, or twice the height of the 
body ; snout longer than the diameter of the eye, which goes eight times into 
the length of the head ; interorbital space less than the vertical diameter of 
the eye ; upper lip rather longer, notched; cutaneous fold well developed ; 
anterior dorsal rays produced beyond the membrane, the tips bifid ; pectorals 
rather more than half the length of the head ; the longest dorsal spine goes 
three and a half times into the length of the head ; caudal rounded, 
Above brown, marbled with darker ; below yellowish, with small irregular 
black spots ; dorsal with seven, and anal with four, round blackish spots. 
Bluff harbour ; Wellington, where it is known as “ yellow-belly ”; found 
also in Australia. 
83b. RHOMBOSOLEA TAPIRINA, Gunth. C.M. 
PL XIE 
È. tapirina, Hect., “Cat. Col. Mus.,” p. 80; Günther, IV., 459. 
B. 6-7; D. 66; A. 48; V.6; P.9. 
Length three and a quarter times that of the head, or nearly twice the 
height of the body ; the diameter of the eye goes seven times, and the length 
of the snout five and three-quarter times into the length of the head; 
interorbital space equal to the vertical diameter of the eye ; eyes divided by a 
narrow ridge ; upper lip deeply notched ; cutaneous fold and gill openings as 
in monopus ; upper pectoral fin about half the length of the head ; anterior 
dorsal rays produced beyond the membrane, the tips bitid ; longest dorsal ray 
about one-third the length of the head ; dorsal and anal terminating at a 
distance from the caudal, which is equal to one-fourth of the least depth of the 
tail ; caudal about one-sixth of the total. Body covered with broad, deep, 
rounded, or quadrilateral depressions, in which the scales are imbedded. 
Brownish black, marbled with olivaceous ; below greyish, 
Wellington harbour. 
Var. B. 
D. 62; A. 44; L lat., 80; L. trans., 22/29. 
Above brown, with red spots; below whitish, marbled with brown. A 
fleshy lobe on the left side of the lower jaw ; scales smaller, 
