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thick, and fleshy ; cavity of mouth enormous ; the intestine must be very 

 short and digestion capable of being carried on within the mouth itself, as 

 on opening same the cavity seems almost to extend to anus ; skin sHmy 

 and soft ; fins and fin-rays thick and fleshy ; eyes very small, covered with 

 the common skin ; nostrils small tubular ; cheeks solid. 



Total length 



Greatest breadth (immediately before pectorals) 



Width of mouth 



Diameter of eye 



Height of dorsal 



Length ,, 



Height of anal 



Length ,, 



,, of pectoral 



,, caudal 



Inches. 

 12-5 



6-7 

 4-5 

 0-27 

 2-0 

 2-3 

 1-5 

 1-5 

 1-2 

 2-2 



Bony shaft of compound appendage and outside of capsular gland covered 

 with minute striate-based spines ; chin solid, square, and projecting. 



Inches. 

 Height of shaft of appendage . . . . . . . . . . 2-0 



Diameter of capsular gland . . . . . . . . . . 0'4 



Length of longest tentacle . . . . . . . . . . 3'0 



Ground colour greyish, mottled with light and splashed with dark brown ; 



appendage brown, mottled with darker, tentacles dark brown with white 



tips. Eye, iris grey, pupil black. Fins greyish. 



Aet. XXXI. — Notes on Kegalecus pacificus, a new Species of Ribbon Fish 

 from the New Zealand Seas. By Julius von Haast, Ph.D., F.E.S. 



Plate VII. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 15th December, 1876.] 

 Mes. George Oram, of New Brighton, kindly informed me on the evening of 

 May the 7th of this year (1876), that in the morning of that day a gigantic 

 frost-fish had been found on the beach near the hotel, to which it had been 

 brought, and that she would be very glad if I would come and inspect it. 

 The next morning I proceeded there, and found the specimen in question, 

 with a few minor exceptions, in a splendid state of preservation ; and as 

 that lady has kmdly presented it to the Museum, I am not only able to offer 

 a description of this remarkable fish, but my friend Dr. L. Powell, F.L.S., 

 has also prepared a careful drawing, and offers in an appendix a few 

 remarks on its anatomy and on the results of a microscopical examination 

 of its so-called scales. 



