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14. Sehastes percoides, Sol. (Cat., p. 9.) PI. YIII. 



15. Scorpcena cruenta, Sol. (Cat., p. 10.) PI. YIII. 



29. Cyttus traversi, Hutton. (Cat., p. 19.) PI. 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. 



31a. NEPTOMENUS BILINEATUS. sp. nov. CM. 



NEPTOMENUS 



BILINEATUS. 



sp. 



nov. 







PI. 



VIII. 







B 6 



; D 6 



1 1 



A|; L. 



lat. 



1201 



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 prseoperculum straight, entire ; operculum with an 

 obtuse point over the shoulder. Scales small and deciduous j a second line, 

 but without pores, runs below the lateral line from a little above the 2:>oint of 

 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 j belly silvery ; tip of 

 both dorsals and inside the pectorals blackish. 



Wellington harbour, November, 1872. 



This species approaches JV. dahula 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 N. travale (Castelnau) from Victoria, but differs considerably from 

 that species. 



I will take this opportunity of correcting a mistake in my description of 

 Neptomenus hrama 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. 



31b. DITREMA VIOLACBA, sp. nov. CM. 



PI. VIII. X, 



B. 4 ? ; D. g ; A. I ; V. -i ; P. 19 j 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 ; 



