260 Transactions. — Zoology. 



D. |jg; A.-|; Y. \; L. lat, 56 j 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 LINE AT A, Porst. CM. 



PI. YII. 



Scicena lineata,^ov^t. Latrislineata, Rich., "Dieff! N.Z,," II., 209. M.lineatum, 

 Gay, "Hist. Chile," ZooL, II., 213; Gunther, ''Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus." 

 II., 85. L. lineata, Hector, " Cat. Col. Mus./' p. 83. 



B. 6j D |; A. ~; P. 17; Y.-|; L. lat., 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 ; prseoperculum 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. 



This specimen, which was 14 inches in total length, was taken in Cook 

 Strait, 1st August, 1872. Dr. Hector also obtained it in Milford Sound 

 in 1863. 



A drawing of the head is also given with the mouth protruded. 



