FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 147 



Latris ciliaris, Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., i, 1899, 



p. 85. Id., Stead, Ed. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1908, p. 70, 



pi. xxxix. (Not of Forster.) 

 Latris ciliaris, Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, iii., 



1879, p. 351. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 



Wales, v., 1881, p. 426. Id., Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S. 



Wales, 1886, p. 20. Id. Waite, Mem. N.S.Wales Nat. 



Club, i., 1904, p. 32 (after Richardson, perhaps not 



L. ciliaris, Forster). 

 ? Latris ciliaris, Kent, Rept. Fish. Dept. Tasmania, 1886, 



p. 14. 

 D. xvi.i.39; A.iii.31 ; P.10+8 ; V. i.5 ; C. 15. L. lat. 



115. 



Head, from snout to end of opercular flap, 3-5 in the length 

 to the hypural joint ; depth before the ventrals 2-6 in the 

 same. Eye 5-3, interorbital space 3-5, and preorbital 4-8 in 

 the head. 



Body compressed. The dorsal profile rises rapidly from 

 the snout to the first dorsal spine, and is slightly convex 

 above the eye ; thence it ascends gradually to the origin of 

 the soft dorsal. The lower profile is almost similar to that 

 of the back ; it is obtusely keeled between the ventral fins 

 and the vent, and less so on the breast. Caudal peduncle 

 short and broad, its depth 3-4 in the length of the head. 

 Interorbital space very convex and scaly, the scales extending 

 forward to the level of the nostrils. Preorbital broad and 

 naked. Nostrils placed a little behind the middle of the 

 snout, close together, the anterior large and oval, the posterior 

 small. Maxillary reaching almost to the level of the posterior 

 nostril. All the opercles are closely covered with minute 

 scales, which become much larger on the cheeks. Operculum 

 unarmed. Margins of the preoperculum smooth, the angle 

 broadly rounded. 



Strong conical teeth form a single row in each jaw ; a 

 secondary row of minute teeth is present on the anterior 

 part of the upper jaw. Voraer, palatines, and tongue tooth- 

 less. 



Body covered with rather small, cycloid scales. There are 

 one hundred and fifteen rows on the lateral line between the 

 operculnm and the caudal rays, eleven between the lateral 

 line and the middle of the back, and twenty-five between it 

 and the abdominal edge. The bases of both dorsals and the 

 anal fin are covered by a sheath of minute scales. The scales 

 extend onto the base of the caudal and up between its rays ; 

 lower portion of pectoral also scaly. 



