Galaxiidee. 
Galaxias attenuatus (Jenyns). 
Head 5.t0.5 1/5; depth 7z.to 97; D. iv, 8, to 10; 
Anal iv, 12; snout 3 1/8 to 3 2/5 in head measured from 
upper jaw tip; eye 2= to 44; maxillary 23 to 3g; interorbit- 
a1 22 to 3 1/3. Body slender, long, moderately compressed; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3 1/5 in head. Head 
width 2 to 2 2/5 in its total length. Snout convex, length 
1; to 1# its width. Eye long as snout, hind edge midway in 
heed length. Maxillery to or beyond front eye edge, not 
guite to pupil. Mandible projects slightly beyond snout tip. 
Single row of small uniform teeth in each jaw, not on maxil- 
lary; each palatin with row of simple teeth approximating 
vomer; tongue with 2 close-set rows of teeth, front ones 
enlarged and approximste. Interorbital slightly convex. 
Gill-rakers 3 to 5 + 8 to 11, lanceolate, about 1/3 of fil- 
sments and latter 2 in eye. Branchiostegals 6. Dorsal in- 
serted midway between ventral origin and caudel base, much 
nearer vontrel in young; fin 3/5 to = to caudal base, or 
2/5 in young. Anal origin opposite that of dorsal, or very 
slightly behind dorsel origin in young; fin 2/3 to ceudal 
base. Pectoral 1 3/5 to 12 in head; about 24 to 3 to vent- 
rals, 2+ in young. Ventral 1$ to 1 4/5 in head, reaches 
2/5 to anal. In alcohol; uniform brownish. Length 92 to 113 
mm. (caudal damared. 
Two from New Zealand and one from Sydney. 
Thompson mentiondMtnhat: compared with G, maculatus the 
most sharply defined difference is that of color, his measure- 
