head elevated; eyes lateral, but without an over-hanging ridge. Nasal disc rounded, blunt, profile of mouth concave, and equal in length to the orbital interspace. Colour dark brown, with blue bars, white beneath. Teeth of lower jaw four times as wide as long (d—d'), of upper jaw six times (e—e'). Specimen caught in Wellington Harbour. Inches. Diameter of disc 86 Length, snout to vent 19 Length, snout to caudal fin 23 Length of tail 17 I append extracts from a paper by Dr. Albert Günther, F.R.S., giving the results of a critical examination of some of our fish which he has recently made.

Art. LXIII.—Remarks on New Zealand Fishes. By Dr. Albert Gunther, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum.* “Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,” May, 1876. Anthias richardsonii, Gthr. This fish also occurs on the coast of New Zealand, Scorpis hectori of Hutton (“Fishes of New Zealand,” p. 4, Fig. 4), being evidently the same species. Chilodactylus spectabilis (Hutton, 1872, Febr). This name is to be adopted instead of Ch. allporti (Gthr., 1872, Sept.) Anema monopterygium. After having re-examined a number of examples of this fish, I cannot agree with Capt. Hutton that two species are confounded under this name. The filament within the mouth of these fish appears often to be accidentally lost, and is probably reproduced. Leptoscopus. I regard L. huttonii (Haast, “Trans. N.Z. Inst.,” V., p. 275) as identical with L. macropygus, and L. robsonii (Hector, 1875) as the young of L. angusticeps (Hutton, 1873). I am indebted to Dr. Hector for a specimen of this L. robsonii, which was obtained in Cook Strait. Seriolella. Additional examples of various ages of the species of Neptomenus (Gthr.), from New Zealand and Tasmania, have convinced me of the identity of this genus with Seriolella (Guichen). In young age the præoperculum is distinctly denticulated, radiating bony spicules projecting beyond its margin; with advancing age the interspaces between the projections are filled up