Zoological Miscellany. 
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Three hitherto unrecorded Species of Fresh-imter Fish, 
brought from New Zealand and presented to the British 
Museum by Dr. Dieffenbach. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
1. Galaxias fasciatus. The body brown, with nearly regular narrow 
cross band on each side. 
Inhabits New Zealand ; River Thames. 
This species resembles, in its form and proportions, Esox alepidotus, 
Forster, Icon, ined., Brit. Mus., No. but that figure represents his spe- 
cies as olive green, the back, head, bases of the dorsal fins and the side of 
the body, marked with unequal, moderate sized, irregular shaped, yellow 
spots ; some of the spots are lunate, and one on each side, over the pecto- 
ral fin is ring-shaped, with a central eye : while all the specimens brought 
home by Dr. Dieffenbach, both the adult and young, are marked with simi- 
lar cross bands. 
2. Anguilla Dieffenhachii. Upper jaw shortest : teeth small, in seve- 
ral series, velvet-like : head short, conical; upper jaw rather the shortest: 
brown, in spirits, with small, differently placed, short, black lines: face 
with 3 pores on each side, j ust above the upper lip ; and 4 pores in a 
short arched line, just above the tubular nostrils ; chin with a series of 7 
pores on each side, near the edge, becoming wider apart behind : lateral 
line formed of rather distant tubular pores, the line is slightly bent upon 
the pectoral ; the dorsal commencing a little distance before the vent. 
Length 15 ; head to pectoral, If ; length of dorsal, 10; of anal 8f inches. 
Inhabits New Zealand ; River Thames. 
3. Eleotris hasalis. Brown, in spirits, minutely darker speckled : fins 
darker, blackish ; the pectoral fin with a broad yellow basal band ; head 
blackish; tail rounded; first dorsal 7, hinder 10 rayed ; ventral 5 rayed. 
Inhabits New Zealand ; River Thames. 
Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera. 
By Edward Doubleday. 
Papilio Ganesa. Above : — All the wings black, irrorated with golden, 
green atoms : anterior >vings, with the termination of the radial and of the 
first branches of the median nervures, clothed with a cottony down : cilia 
white : posterior wings glossed anteriorly with blue ; this portion irrorated 
with blue atoms : near the external angle is a large brilliant blue jTatch, 
slightly sinuated anteriorly, deeply so posteriorly, not connected by any 
sinuous line with the abdominal margin : near the margin is a series of 
from three to five red lunules, the one at the anal angle divided by, the 
others margined with, a slender light blue line ; indentations margined 
with white : tail broad, spatulate, irrorated with green along the nervure. 
Below : — Anterior wings black at the base, whitish beyond the discoidal 
cell ; the nervures, eight longitudinal striae between the nervures, and the 
margin itself, fuscous : posterior wings black, more intense than above, ir- 
GRAY, ZOOL. MISC. — JUNE, 1842. I 
