Hector. — Notes on New Zealand Ichthyology, 



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Art. XXXIY. — Notes on New Zealand Ichthyology. By James Hector, 

 M.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand. 



Plates X. and XI, 

 {Read hefore the Wellington PhilosopJiical Society, 25th July, 1874, and lOtJi Feb., 1875.] 



List of Fishes caught on the West Coast of Otago, 

 January-February, 1874. 





Preservation, 

 Cuttle Cove. 



Chalky, 

 South Port. 



Dusky, 



Pickersgill. 



Oligorus gigas 

 Scorpis hectori 

 Chilodactylus macropterus 

 Latris hecateia 



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* 



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 * 



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* 

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Mendosoma lineata ... 



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• • • 



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Latris ciliaris 



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* 



* 



Sebastes percoides 

 Scorpsena cruenta 

 Trachurus trachurus ... 



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 * 



* 



• • • 



* 



Percis colias 



* 



* 



* 



Notothenia coriiceps C?) 

 Trypterygium varium 

 Labrichthys fucicola ... 



„ bothryocosmus 

 „ psittacula 

 Odax vittatus 



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* 



* 



* 



• • • 



• • • 



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 * 



* 



• • • 



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Coridodax pullus 



* 



* 



* 



Haplodactylus meandratus 

 Lotella bacchus 



• • • 



* 



* 



Pseudorhombus scaphus 



* 



• • • 



... 



Monacanthus convexirostris 



• I • 



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* 



Acanthias vulgaris 



• • • 



* 



* 



Mustelus antarcticus ... 



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Galeus canis 



* 



• • • 



* 



Bdellostoma cirrhatum 



... 



* 



... 



During the past year I have enjoyed several favourable opportunities of 

 obtaining a further acquaintance with the fishes on the coasts of the colony, 

 and particularly during a cruise in January last in his Excellency Sir James 

 Fergusson's yacht Blanche round the south-west coast of Otago, in the 

 course of which the trammel-net was frequently used in Preservation Inlet, 

 Chalky Inlet, and Dusky Bay. Continuous observations of the temperature 

 of the sea were also made, and it was found that at that season the surface of 

 the sea on the East Coast and in Foveaux Strait averaged 5 6 '5°, but on 

 rounding the West Cape and in the Sounds the temperature of the surface 

 water is 61°. From a few observations made with the Miller-Casella 



