jaws, very oblique, the points being turned outwards; several strong denticulations on each side of the principal point. No membrana nictitans. Spiracles small; gill-openings of moderate width. “Echinorhinus spinosus. “Spiracles behind the eye, behind the vertical from the angle of the mouth. Teeth 22–26/22–26. Dorsal fins close together. Each tubercle with a small spine in the centre. Brownish-violet, with or without dark spots.”

Art. XIX.—On a Torpedo (T. fusca,? n. sp.) recently caught near Dunedin. By T. Jeffery Parker, B. Sc. Lond., Professor of Biology in the University of Otago. [Read before the Otago Institute, 7th May, 1883.] Plate XXII. The specimen upon which the following description is founded was caught at Purakanui, Otago, towards the end of last year. As far as I know it is only the second example of the genus which has been recorded in New Zealand,* Since this paper was written, two specimens of Torpedo have been caught in Napier Harbour, but the description of them (N.Z. Journ. of Sci., July, 1883) is not sufficiently exact to allow of their identification. the other having been caught at Napier, in 1868, by Captain Fairchild, and named by Professor Hutton† Hutton and Hector, Catalogue of N.Z. Fishes, 1872. Torpedo fairchildi. The present specimen agrees in most respects with T. hebetans,‡ Günther, Catalogue of Fishes, viii., p. 449. of which I should be disposed to consider it a variety, but for the fact that it differs from that species in at least one character considered by Günther to be of specific importance. I therefore propose to name it provisionally T. fusca. The species of Torpedo are divided by Günther into two groups, containing respectively those with fringed and those with unfringed spiracles. My specimen belongs to the latter subdivision, in which only two species, T. hebetans, and T. narce, are included in the “Catalogue of Fishes.” A query is, however, placed against T. emarginata of McCoy,¶ Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1841. indicating that its position as a synonym of T. hebetans is doubtful. Hutton's T. fairchildi has also unfringed spiracles, and it is apparently the only new species of Torpedo which has been recorded since the publication of the “Catalogue of Fishes.”