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specimens of the fish which are described in the foregoing paper, the speci- 

 mens in each case being females full of roe : — 



R. 



Richardsmiii. 



R. osmeroides. 



C. Upolcororo. 



Total length (inches) 



3-7 



7-0 



10-3 



To dorsal 



2-2 



4-0 



5-5 



To ventral 



1-5 



2-9 



5-5 



Dorsal to adipose fin 



0-7 



1-4 



3-0 



Length of head 



0-7 



1-5 



1-8 



Maxillary 



0-2 



0-8 



0-7 



To anterior margin of eye 



0-1 



0-5 



0-6 



Depth of body 



0-5 



1-2 



2-3 



Art, XXII. — On a New Si^edes of Fish, Coryphtenoides Novte Zelandise ; 

 Native name, Okarari. By James Hector, M.D., F.RS.. 



(Plate XVIIL, fig. 1.) 

 [Read he/ore the Wellington Philosophical Society, October 22, 1870.] 

 In August last, the fish which forms the subject of this notice was brought 

 to me as a Frost-fish, to which rare fish, from its narrow body and silvery 

 colour, it bears a general resemblance. It however belongs to a group 

 more allied to that which includes the cod, and, from its having no caudal 

 fins, to the family Macruridce, and, from the absence of ridges on the 

 skull, to the genus Coryphcenoides. At the same time, it is distinct from any 

 species described by Dr. Giinther (Fishes of Brit. Mus., Vol. iv., p. 395), by 

 the position of the vent, which is set much further back than the commence- 

 ment of the second dorsal fin. 



Tlie colour of the fish, when fresh, was silver grey, a little darker above 

 than beneath, with a pale brown patch extending on each side from above the 

 eye to the pectoral fin. The fins were all darker in colour than the body. 



The eye is remarkably lai-ge in proportion to the size of the head. The 

 iris of a pale bluish brown. 



From under the jaw there is a long bifid barbel, as in the cod. 



The teeth are in two series, the outer row set fine, and the inner long and 

 recurved. 



P. 12. V. 8. 1st D. 12. 2nd 102. A. 92. 



Only one mutilated specimen, now in the British M^^seum, appears to have 

 been obtained in the Australian seas of any of the species of this genus, and 

 as the specimen above described diOers in a very marked manner from the 

 figure and description of that fish given in Richardson's work, I think it 

 must be undescribed, and therefore propose to call it Coryphcenoides Novce 

 Zelandice. y 



Its length is 21 inches ; height 24 inches ; thickness about f inch. 



The diameter of the orbit is nearly 1^ inch ; and the gape 1| inch long. 



The only specimen yet obtained was caught oflf Wai-d Island, in Port 

 Nicholson. 



