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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 ; coyered with 
small scales. One dorsal tin, occupying nearly the 
whole of the hack, by far the greater part being 
composed of spines ; anal tin long, with the number 
of the spines exceeding that of the rays ; ventrals 
jugular, composed of a few rays. Dentition complete. 
Pour gills, pseudohranchise. Air-bladder, none ; 
pyloric appendages, none. Coasts of New Zealand. 
Carnivorous fishes.” 
TEUTHIDID^. 
“ Body compressed and oblong, covered with 
very small scales. Lateral line continuous ; tail 
not armed. Eye lateral, of moderate size. A 
