264 . Transactions — Zoology. 



62a. CRISTICEPS AUSTRALIA C & V. - CM. 



C. auairalis, Griinther, III., 275. 



±J. ^ I g g ^ ^. 23.25 } V • 3- 



Length equal to three and three-quarter times that of the head, which is 

 equal to the height of the body. The first dorsal commences above the 

 posterior margin of the orbit, and is nearly twice as high as the second. The 

 lateral line ceases before the end of the pectoral fins. A simple tentacle above 

 the eye, and a pair of bifurcated ones over the snout. Colour (in spirits) 

 uniform reddish. 



Bay of Islands and Cape Campbell. 



53. Sticharium rubrum, Hutton. (Cat., p. 33.) PL IX. 



In a letter to Dr. Hector, Dr. Giinther says that this fish does not belong 

 to the genus StichariuTn, but should be referred to Clinus. I kept both it and 

 Sticharium Jiavescens out of Clinus, on account of the small number of soft 

 rays in the dorsal, but as Dr. Giinther says that they cannot be placed in the 

 genus SticJiarium, they will have to be called Clinus rubrus and CJlavescens^ 

 and will form a small group by themselves. 



54. Sticharium Jiavescens, Hutton. (Cat., p. 33.) PL XV. 



56a. TRACK YPTERUS ALTIVELIS, Kner. ? A.M. 



T. altivelis, Giinther, III., 303. 



D. 200 1 A. 0. 



Length about seven times the greatest height of the body, which is at the 



base of the ventral fins ; cavidal nearly as long as the head, pointing obliquely 



upwards ; upper profile deeply concave, descending rapidly from the eye ; 



muzzle truncated ; cleft of the mouth vertical. Total length 20 inches. 



The above description is taken from a Yery bad specimen preserved in the 

 Auckland Museum. 



57. Mugil perusii, YaL (Cat., p. 36.) PL IX. 



In a letter to Dr. Hector, Dr. Giinther says that he thinks that our mullet 

 is identical with M. cephalotus, C. & V. It appears to me to difier slightly 

 from this species in having the head broader, in the length of the anterior 

 dorsal spine being less than half the length of the head, and in its being placed 

 rather nearer the snout than the root of the caudal. 



Judging from descriptions only, I should be inclined to think that our fish 

 comes nearer to M. ramelshergii, but besides the head being broader, the 

 posterior nostril is placed as in M. cephalotus. The second dorsal is also 

 placed further back than in either of these species ; the angle formed by the 



