ACANTHOPTERYail. 
Pisces 12 
Trichiurid^. 
Lepidopns elongatns, sp. n., F. Clarke, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xi. p. 294, pi. iiv. 
New Zealand. 
CaranqidJ3. 
Parequula, g. n. Body oblong, moderately compressed, covered with 
large toothed scales; mouth protractile, teeth in jaws slender, pointed, 
none on palate ; prseoperculum denticulated ; operculum without spines ; 
dorsal continuous, without notch between the spinous and soft parts, 
spines extremely strong ; anal with three spines ; branchiostegals 5 ; 
pseudobranchiae present. P. hicornis, sp. n., Steindachner, Denk. Ak. 
Wien, xli. Abth. i. p. 8, S. Australia. 
\ Equula novce-hollandice, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 11. 
^ Capros aper. Numerous notices of the Boar-fish taken on various 
parts of the English coasts in Zool. 1879. 
Oyttid.®. 
Zeus. On Z. pungio and faher ; Ninni, Atti 1st. Venet. (5) iv. pp. 
1058-1067. 
CORYPHASNID^. 
Discus aureus, g. & sp. nn., founded on possibly young specimens ; 
W. Campbell, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xi. p. 297, fig. p. 298, Hokitika, New Zealand, 
JScOMBRlDyE. 
Chriomitra, g. n. Differs from Scomber in more numerous finlets and 
want of uniform covering of scales ; from Orcynus and Sarda by wanting 
corselet. No teeth on vomer or palatines. C. concolor, sp. n., Lockington, 
P. Ac. Philad. 1879, p. 133, California. 
Scomber pneinnatophorus, Do la Bochd, described from Hobson’s Bay, 
Victoria ; F. McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Viet. iii. p. 43, pi. xxviii. 
Thynnus peregrinus, sp. n., Collett, Forh. Selsk. Chr. 1879, No. 1, p. 20, 
pi. fig. 1 : — Pelamys unicolor, Geoff., which has vometine teeth ; id. 1. c. 
No. 15. 
Auxis ramsayi, sp. n., Ca^telnau, 1. c. p. 382. 
n1 Cybium. Notes on the American species; Poey, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. 
pp. 3-5. 
Echeneis. Some remarks supplementary to his paper on Echeneis in 
1875 ; Liitken, Vid. Medd. 1877 (1878), p. 242. 
Trachinidau. 
^ Percis gilliesi, sp. n., Hutton, Ann. N. H. (5) iii. p. 53, New Zealand. 
Caulolatilus microps, sp. n., Goode & Bean, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 43, 
Florida. 
