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opercular bones, the preoperculum being very finely denticulated, 

 and the operculum terminated by a slightly concave line without 

 projecting angles. The ventrals are still further back than in Casio, 

 and the cseca are few in number. The scales are cycloid, without 

 teeth or cilia, and the genus, unlike any previously described mse- 

 noid group, has the lower pectoral rays simple like those of aplodac- 

 tylus. There are no elongated scales at the base of the ventrals. 

 Latris Hecateia is marked by three well-defined dark stripes on each 

 side of the back, with a more diffused one inferiorly on the flanks, 

 the four pyloric caeca are short and wide, and the only specimen in 

 the collection is eleven inches long, which is said to be the ordinary 

 size. 



The principal characters of this genus are as follows : — 



Latris, n. g. 



Piscis acanthopterygius, maenoideus. Pinna esquamosae : dorsi 

 pinna unica, profunde emarginatd, in fosssi decumbens ; ventrales 

 pinnae sub abdomine medio positse. Radii pinnae pectoralis infe- 

 riores (novem) simplices. Preoperculum denticulatum. Os me- 

 dic^ protendens. Denies in oris ambitu tignoque vomeris positi 

 villosi, in ossiculis pharyngeis parvi, subulati, conferti. Palatum 

 linguaque laeves. Squama laeves. 



L. Hecateia, species unica detect a. 



Radii:— Br. 6-6; P. 9 et 9; V. 1, 5 ; D. 18, 36; A. 3, 27. 



1 1 . Thyrsites altivelis. Thyr, radiispinnce dorsi aculeatis, cor- 

 pus altitudine cequantihus ; dentibus intermaxillm utriusque qua- 

 tuordecim, in latere maxillce inferioris utroque duodecim. 



Radii:— Br. 7-7; P. 14; V. 1, 6; D. 20-1, 11 e^ VII,; A. 1, 10 

 & VII.; C. 17^ 



A single specimen of this fish in the collection, agrees in most par- 

 ticulars with the description of Thyrsites atten in the Histoire des 

 Poissons, but the spinous rays of the dorsal fin are considerably higher 

 in proportion, and the teeth on the jaws much fewer. 



12. Blennius Tasmanius is an undescribed species strongly re- 

 sembling some of the European ones. 



13. Clinus despicillatus differs from C.perspicillatus of the HiS' 

 toire des Poissons in possessing a thicker form, a larger head, a pro- 

 portionably smaller eye, and in wanting the nuchal marks which 

 give the name to that species. The marks on the body are arranged 

 as in perspicillatus, but there are three transverse bands on the pec- 

 toral and caudal fins, with many other spots not mentioned in the 

 description of the latter. The dorsal i;fiys are 36, 4, and in other 

 particulars the two fish seem to be much alike. 



14. Labrus laticlavius. Lab, smaragdinus, fasciis binis late- 



