272 Transactions — Zoology. 



139a. GBOTRIA AUSTRALIS, Gray. CM. 



G. australis, Giintli., VIII., p. 508. 

 PL XII. 



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 (GUnther). 



Stewart Island ; found also in South Australia. 



Art. XXIX. — Notes on some Undescrihed Fishes of New Zealand. 

 By Julius Haast, Ph. D., F.KS., Director of the Canterbury Museum. 



(With Illustrations.) 



[Head before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 7th 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 DONALD it. sp. nov. 



Capt. Hutton in his Catalogue states that Richardson mentions a fish 

 under the name of Aplodacfylus meandratus as having been caught off" Cape 

 Kidnappers, but that it appears that there is no description of it. Dr. GUnther 



