﻿Claeke. 
  — 
  On 
  a 
  new 
  Fish 
  found 
  at 
  HoJcitika. 
  295 
  

  

  tion. 
  All 
  were 
  iu 
  the 
  same 
  proportion 
  as 
  the 
  one 
  above 
  described, 
  and 
  

   varied 
  but 
  httle 
  in 
  size 
  ; 
  but 
  were 
  generally 
  much 
  mutilated 
  by 
  attrition 
  on 
  

   the 
  sand 
  and 
  shingly 
  beach. 
  

  

  Aet. 
  XXVI, 
  — 
  On 
  a 
  new 
  Fish 
  found 
  at 
  Hokitika. 
  By 
  F. 
  E. 
  Clahke. 
  

  

  Plate 
  XIV. 
  

   [Read 
  before 
  the 
  Westland 
  Institute, 
  8th 
  January, 
  1879.] 
  

   The 
  fish, 
  hereafter 
  desicribed, 
  and 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  which 
  on 
  the 
  West 
  

   Coast 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honour 
  to 
  bring 
  under 
  your 
  notice 
  this 
  

   evening, 
  is 
  interesting 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  its 
  being 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  its 
  genus 
  dis- 
  

   covered 
  in 
  the 
  seas 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  hemisphere, 
  or, 
  in 
  fact, 
  in 
  any 
  other 
  but 
  

   European 
  waters. 
  

  

  Hitherto 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  ofi' 
  the 
  coasts 
  of 
  Norway, 
  Scotland 
  and 
  

   islands 
  (very 
  rarely), 
  and 
  the 
  Mediterranean, 
  in 
  which 
  sea 
  a 
  common 
  

   variety 
  occurs, 
  which 
  is 
  notable 
  as 
  affording 
  the 
  silvery 
  pigment 
  formerly 
  

   used 
  in 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  artificial 
  pearls. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  British 
  specimen 
  was 
  noted 
  by 
  Yarrell 
  in 
  1837, 
  and 
  was 
  caught 
  

   off 
  Kothsay 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Bute, 
  and 
  British 
  specimens 
  have 
  been 
  but 
  few 
  in 
  

   number 
  since 
  then. 
  It 
  is 
  stated 
  that 
  all 
  specimens 
  obtained 
  there, 
  and 
  off 
  

   the 
  coast 
  of 
  Norway, 
  occur 
  usually 
  after 
  severe 
  and 
  cold 
  wintry 
  weather, 
  

   and 
  this 
  kind 
  of 
  weather 
  ushered 
  in 
  the 
  arrival 
  of 
  our 
  species 
  which 
  was 
  

   found 
  washed 
  on 
  shore 
  on 
  the 
  South 
  Spit, 
  Hokitika, 
  6th 
  August, 
  1878, 
  by 
  

   W. 
  Duncan, 
  waterman, 
  and 
  was 
  kindly 
  brought 
  under 
  my 
  notice 
  by 
  Capt. 
  

   Turnbull, 
  harbour 
  master, 
  under 
  the 
  impression 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   young 
  Californian 
  salmon 
  lately 
  liberated 
  in 
  the 
  river. 
  It 
  turned 
  out 
  to 
  be 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  Salmonidce, 
  though 
  not 
  the 
  one 
  wished 
  for. 
  

  

  As 
  far 
  as 
  can 
  be 
  arrived 
  at, 
  by 
  comparison 
  with 
  descriptions, 
  etc., 
  our 
  

   specimen 
  agrees 
  very 
  well, 
  except 
  some 
  ill-defined 
  peculiarities, 
  with 
  the 
  

   Hebrides 
  variety, 
  and 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  of 
  excessive 
  interest 
  to 
  have 
  more 
  proof 
  

   than 
  mere 
  imagination, 
  that 
  our 
  antipodean 
  species 
  had 
  gradually 
  worked 
  

   its 
  way 
  " 
  sub 
  mare 
  " 
  in 
  those 
  cold 
  lower 
  strata 
  of 
  water 
  to 
  our 
  coasts. 
  

  

  The 
  specimen 
  has 
  been 
  forwarded 
  as 
  a 
  "type" 
  to 
  the 
  Colonial 
  Museum, 
  

  

  Wellington. 
  

  

  Argentina. 
  

  

  Scales 
  rather 
  large 
  ; 
  cleft 
  of 
  mouth 
  small 
  ; 
  intermaxillaries 
  and 
  maxillariea 
  

  

  very 
  short, 
  not 
  extending 
  to 
  below 
  the 
  orbit; 
  eye 
  large; 
  jaws 
  without 
  teeth, 
  

  

  an 
  arched 
  series 
  of 
  minute 
  teeth 
  across 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  vomer, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  fore 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  palatines 
  ; 
  tongue 
  armed 
  with 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  small 
  curved 
  teeth 
  

  

  On 
  each 
  side 
  (except 
  in 
  one 
  species) 
  ; 
  dorsal 
  fin 
  short, 
  in 
  advance 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  Ventrals 
  ; 
  caudal 
  deeply 
  forked; 
  

  

  