272 ; Transactions—Zoology. 
139a. GEOTRIA AUSTRALIS, Gray. C.M. 
G. australis, Giinth., VIIL, p. 508. 
PL XIL 
Skin on the throat dilated into a large sac; maxillary lamina thin, 
crescent shaped, with four sharp teeth, the middle pair of which are only 
half as broad as the outer; mandibulary lamina very low, slightly sinuous ; 
suctorial teeth in numerous series, rather distant from one another ; anicuspid 
small, those nearest to the mouth rather larger ; only one transverse series of 
very small teeth between the mandibulary lamina and the posterior lip, which, 
as well as the remainder of the margin of the disc, is beset with numerous 
broad leaf-like fringes ; suctorial disc subtriangular, with the lateral lobes very 
broad ; dorsal fins widely separated. 
Uniform blackish ; in spirits bluish black (Günther). 
Stewart Island ; found also in South Australia. 
Art. XXIX.—Notes on some Undescribed Fishes of New Zealand. 
By Jurus Haast, Ph. D., F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury Museum. 
(With Illustrations.) 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Tth August, 1872.] 
THE excellent “Catalogue of the Fishes of New Zealand,” drawn up by 
Capt. Hutton for the Colonial Museum in Wellington, which forms a welcome 
addition to the scientific literature of the Colony, and to the careful edition 
of which I wish to bear my testimony, has afforded me an opportunity of 
naming the specimens of fishes in the Canterbury Museum with greater 
facility than otherwise would have been the case, as well as to see at a glance 
which genera and species are still unrepresented in the provincial collections. 
At the same time that little work has shown me that we possess in the 
collections under my charge several species which are either unrepresented in 
the Colonial Museum or are new to science. 
In the following notes I shall therefore give a description of a few species 
which form an addition to the Catalogue, adding a short diagnosis to each. 
In one or two instances I shall propose a change in the nomenclature, that 
adopted by Capt. Hutton not appearing to me to be quite appropriate. 
HAPLODACTYLUS DONALDII. sp. nov. 
Capt. Hutton in his Catalogue states that Richardson mentions a fish 
wader the name of Aplodactylus meandratus as having been caught off Cape 
rs, but that it appears that there is no description of it. Dr. Günther 
