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the spines and rays purple ; the ventrals yellow, and the pec- 

 torals purple. Between the base of the pectorals and ventrals 

 are two rounded white spots ; several others, oblong and trans- 

 parent ones, are seen on the fins. On the only specimen I have 

 seen they are disposed as follows : — on the second dorsal a fene- 

 strated, rounded spot between the fourth and fifth, the 

 ninth, tenth, and eleventh, the twentieth and twenty-first, the 

 twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh, and the thirty-second and 

 thirty -third ones at the base of the caudal ; on the anal one 

 between the seventeenth and eighteenth, and the twentieth and 

 twenty-first, one covering about all the twenty-third, twenty- 

 fourth, and twenty-fifth, and between this and the last ray there 

 are two, one placed over the other ; near the base of the pec- 

 torals there is a transverse line, formed of three similar spots ; 

 eye green. 



One single specimen seen at Melbourne in the month of 

 January ; it was about six and a-half inches long. 



ACANTHOCLINID^]. 



" Body elongate, low, compressed ; covered with 

 small scales. One dorsal fin, occupying nearly the 

 whole of the back, by far the greater part being 

 composed of spines ; anal fin long, with the number 

 of the spines exceeding that of the rays ; ventrals 

 jugular, composed of a few rays. Dentition complete. 

 "Four gills, pseudobranchise. Air-bladder, none ; 

 pyloric appendages, none. Coasts of New Zealand. 

 Carnivorous fishes." 



TEUTHIDIDtE. 

 " Body compressed and oblong, covered with 

 very small scales. Lateral line continuous; tail 

 not armed. Eye lateral, of moderate size. A 



