Clarke. — On two new Fishes. 



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mottled band above, and a series of luminous spots before caudal and over 

 anal fins ; eyes, iris dark blue, pupil black; fins almost immaculate. 



Inches. 



Total length .. .. .. ; 1-22 



Total depth 0-60 



Length of body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-60 



Longest diameter of eye . . . . . . . . . . . . O-l-i 



Shortest do. do 0-10 



Length of head . . . . 0-34 



Distance from posterior margin of gill-covers to end of tail. . 0'70 

 Specimen was collected on beach, Hokitika, 28tli October, 1877, after 

 heavy gales ; other fishes obtained at same time belonged to genera Cyttus, 

 Maurolicus, Gonostomus and 8co-pelus, and a pelagic crustacean, Phronima 

 novce-zealandicB.'" 



Family, Pediculati. 

 Nov. genus, ^gceonichthys. 

 Head and body excessively large, broad, aiid depressed ; tail very short ; 

 mouth exceedingly wide and vertical ; supra-orbital bones i^roduced into 

 heavy ridges, divergent posteriorly, covered with the common skin and 

 terminating in a small strong sx:)ine directed upwards ; between ridges a 

 deep groove in which is situated over head a compound appendage capable 

 of movement in an almost universal manner and with a thick, pear-shaped, 

 muscular base, bony shaft, surmounted with a semispherical capsular gland, 

 from the back and upper margin of which arise one simple, one double- 

 branched and two compound-branched fleshy tentacles, terminating at free 

 ends of branches in white shining vermiform tips ; the front of the capsular 

 gland is covered with a silvery or nacreous integument with aperture in 

 centre connected with interior and surrounded with a black ring ; body and 

 tail armed with broad-based conical spines ending in fine points ; one short 

 dorsal and short anal each terminating close to caudal and placed far back ; 

 pectorals small and but imperfectly pediculated ; teeth in both jaws very 

 numerous, in various rows, and of unequal lengths, they are slightly 

 recurved, flat, sharp-pointed with cutting edges, moving freely in socket 

 when pressed in direction of interior of mouth but perfectly rigid in opposite 

 direction ; the teeth in pharynx short and recurved, and in clusters on 

 branchiostegals ; gill openings in axilla and partly on under surface of body. 

 Habitat — Seas of New Zealand. 



JEGCEONICHTHYS APPELII, sp. nov. 



D. 5; P. 17; A. 4; C. 8. 



Spines more numerous on ventral surface than on sides or back ; inside 

 the mouth at the back of the teeth (upper and lower jaws) is a black tough 

 fleshy flap extending from one side to the other ; tongue immensely broad, 



