422 Dr. Richardson's Contributions to 



LIX. — Contributions to the Ichthyology of Australia. By 

 John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., &c, Inspector of 

 Hospitals, Haslar. 



[Continued from p. 359.] 



Julis auricularis (Cuv. et Val.), Ear-marked Julis. 



No. 18. Lieut. Emery's drawings. 



I am inclined to consider the beautiful drawing here quoted 

 as a representation of the Julis auricularis (Hist, des Poiss. 

 xiii. p. 489) discovered in King George's Sound by MM. Quoy 

 and Gaimard, the naturalists of the expedition commanded 

 by Captain D'Urville. Lieutenant Emery's specimen was pro- 

 cured at Abrolhos on the same coast. 



It measured fourteen inches in length, the head forming two- 

 ninths of this measurement, and slightly exceeding the height of the 

 body. The ventrals are acute, but not longer than the rounded pec- 

 torals, which equal the sixth part of the whole length. The dorsal 

 and anal rise equably as they run backwards to the height of one- 

 third of the body. The caudal is much rounded. Lips flesh-coloured ; 

 from thence on the upper part of the head to the dorsal fin, and down 

 to the middle of the eye, duck-green. Cheeks and operculum scar- 

 let, terminating by a horizontal line even with the angle of the 

 mouth, beneath which the colour is pale reddish lilac. Tip of the 

 gill-flap smalt-blue, with a red spot and a black posterior edging. 

 The pectoral region from the gill-opening to the anus and up to the 

 level of the point of the gill- cover is white, which ends squarely be- 

 hind. The ground-colour of the remainder of the body is vermilion- 

 red, which takes a lakish tint on the flanks. The whole side is re- 

 gularly streaked by sixteen stripes, a little narrower than the inter- 

 vening spaces, and of a pistachio-green colour, except the two upper 

 ones, which are smalt-blue. A rectangular black mark crosses the 

 middle of the first two dorsal rays ; the border of the fin is marked 

 longitudinally by six waving gallstone-yellow lines, and the part be- 

 neath is crossed obliquely by crowded lines of the same colour. The 

 anal wants the black spot, but is otherwise coloured exactly like the 

 dorsal. Four coarser undulating gallstone -yellow lines cross the ex- 

 tremity of the caudal, and there are five round spots of the same hue 

 on the proximal half of the fin ; its ground tint being pale blue ; each 

 of its rounded corners is occupied by a narrow pale lilac crescent. 

 The bright gamboge-yellow pectoral has three black streaks along 

 its upper edge, and the ventrals are striped with deep lilac and yel- 

 low. The iris is painted with blue and scarlet concentric rings. 

 The specimen described by M. Valenciennes had lost its original 

 colours, though some tracings of the markings remained, which do 

 not correspond well with the drawing here described. 



Figure 13 of Lieutenant Emery's drawings represents a fish 

 which was also taken at Abrolhos. It resembles the above so 

 closely in its form and in the general arrangement of its 



