Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

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Retropinna retropinna (syn. Retropinna osmeroides) and Prototroctes oxyrhynchus (syn. Retropinna opokororo)
Identifier: transactionsproc31870newz (find matches)
Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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xtending on each side from above theeye to the pectoral fin. The fins were all darker in colour than the body. The eye is remarkably lai-ge in proportion to the size of the head. Theiris of a pale bluish brown. From under the jaw there is a long bifid barbel, as in the cod. The teeth are in two series, the outer row set fine, and the inner long andrecurved. P. 12. V. 8. 1st D. 12. 2nd 102. A. 92. Only one mutilated specimen, now in the British M^^seum, appears to havebeen obtained in the Australian seas of any of the species of this genus, andas the specimen above described diOers in a very marked manner from thefigure and description of that fish given in Richardsons work, I think itmust be undescribed, and therefore propose to call it Coryphcenoides NovceZelandice. y Its length is 21 inches; height 24 inches ; thickness about f inch. The diameter of the orbit is nearly 1^ inch ; and the gape 1; inch long. The only specimen yet obtained was caught oflf Wai-d Island, in PortNicholson.
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137 Art. XXIII.—0« the Lepidoptera of Otago. By A. Bathgate. (Bead before the Otago Institute, January 11, 1870.) The niggardliness of nature in her providing for New Zealand has almostbecome proverbial, and she has certainly been far from liberal so far as insectsare concerned. We are rather gainers by this, for though many insects arebeautiful and useful to man, the majority either subject us to petty annoyances,or are positively noxious. We may miss the first white butterfly amongthe signs of spring ; but we are saved from finding the caterpillars in ourcabbage. We have no wasps and few ants, and except, perhaps, mosquitosand sand-flies, in remote localities, and the great plague of the aphis, or blightas it is usually called, we are, compared with other countries, free from insectpests. This paucity is more remarkable when we consider how importedinsects thrive. The common house-fly (Musca domestica) has been accidentallyintroduced, and is now spread nearly all over the country

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