KISIIKS -WAIIK. Hi) 



cviiidal lays. Tlic anal coiniiiciK-cs hciicatli t.lic lirsl dorsal i;iy, 

 and it is similar to tlu5 corrcispoiidiii;.^ part of that tin, but is 

 cuutiiiucd further back, and its posterior raysextend slightly Ijcyond 

 the base of those of the caudal. The pectoral arises frc^ni a ileshy 

 base, its second and third rays are the longest and reach to above 

 the third anal spine. The ventral extends to the vent, but the 

 outer ray, which is produced, reaches to the origin of th(! anal. 

 The caudal is truncate or slightly rounded. 



Scales. — Four imperfect rows of small scales on the cheeks, 

 those of the body are large, thin, and adherent, marked with 

 faint radiating striae. The tubules of the lateral line are simple 

 and very low, and terminate in a large pore opening at some 

 distance from the margin of the scale. The lateral line is 

 interrupted on the twenty-second scale, and three rows lower 

 is continued along six scales in the median line of the tail to 

 within a scale of the caudal ra3fs. 



Colours. — In life the general colour was of an opalescent 

 translucent salmon tint with oblique blue hair-lines on the dorsal 

 surface, one to each scale, lost about the lateral line. Two or 

 three rows of scales bordering the ventral fin and extending along 

 the lower side of the caudal peduncle were marked each with a 

 large I due blotch at its base. All the fins orange, the dorsal and 

 anal marked with oblique wavy blue lines and the tail with five 

 bars of the same colour. Eye orange. Preserved in formol the 

 colours are the same, but have faded somewhat. 



Total length of specimen 185 mm., the length of the type 

 132 mm. 



Family ZEID^. 



ZEUS (Artedi), Cuvier. 



ZEUS AUSTRALIS, Richardson. 



Dory. 



Zeus australis, Rich., Voy. Ereb. & Terr., Fish., 1846, pp. 36 and 

 138, pi. XXV., fig. 1. 



Stations 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 34, 35, 

 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 56, 57, 58. 



Although retaining Richardson's name, I am strongly inclined 

 to agree with Giinther in regarding the species as identical with 

 Z. fiiber, Linn. With a nice series befoi'e me most of the characters 

 emphasised by Richardson are seen to be variable, and in some 



