Kisiiiis — WAi'ii!:. 85 



luimihj CIKKHITlDyl^l 



L A T 11 1 8, R%c}iar<lsuu. 



LATRIS CILIART8, For>itcr. 



Bastard Tuum peter. 



Sciama ciliaris, For.st., De.scr. Aiiim., Ed. Liclit., 1H44, p. 137. 

 Lalris ciliaris, Rich., Voy. Ereb. & Terr., Fi.sli., 1844, p. 37, 

 pi. xxvi., figs. 6-7. 



Station 53. 



Having its headciuarters in New Zealand waters, this species 

 is scarce in our Colony, and when secured is only taken with 

 hook and line. Dr. Hector,* writing of it in New Zealand 

 waters, remarks, however, " it rarely takes the bait, but is 

 chiefly caught with the net." Our line fishermen tell me that it 

 is only taken on rock}'- bottom, and our single example was 

 certainly secured in such situation, for no sooner had the trawl 

 reached the ground than it became fouled and got rather badly 

 torn. This occurred off Shoalhaven Bight in 23 fathoms. 



DACTYLOSPARUS, Gill 

 DACTYLOSPARUS CARPONEMUS, Parkinson. 



MORWONG. 



Sparus carponemus, Parkinson. 



Cheilodactylus carponemus, Cuv. &, Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v., 



1830, p. 362, pi. cxxviii. 

 Chilodactylus carponemus, McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict., Dec. xviii., 



1889, pis. clxxiii., clxxiv. 



Stations?, 12, 21, 42, 48, 58. 



It is to be noticed that although neither of the nearly-related 

 fishes, Dactylosparus macropterus, nor the common Cliilodactyhis 



* Hector— Edible Fish. N.Z., 1872, p. 108. 



