634 ON A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF LABROID FISH. 



seven purplish transverse bands, darkest inferiorly, where they are 

 much broader than the interspaces, and even coalesce on the 

 abdominal I'egion, which is further ornamented with brilliant 

 violet spots and streaks ; upper part of head paler than the back :: 

 a narrow violet band runs obliquely downwards from the eye to 

 the middle of the maxilla ; a second parallel to this just touches 

 the end of the maxilla, but does not quite join the corresponding 

 band on the opposite side ; a third, which is mush fainter, runs 

 from the antero- to the postero-inferior angle of the orbit, forming 

 a semicircle, which encloses a purple spot ; there are two more 

 narrow pinkish vei'tical bands descending from the cheeks to the 

 isthmus, which is of a pale blue color : the lower part of the 

 opercle is purple, and there are several round sj^ots of the same 

 color behind the eye. Dorsal fin pale red with a brilliant blue 

 spot between the two first spines, and the outer half of the web of 

 the three first orange with narrow pale blue longitudinal streaks ; 

 an olive-green band, broadest posteriorly, runs along the outer 

 half of the entire length of the fin, but only touches the margin 

 on the last two or three rays ; below this are numei'ous carmine 

 spots and short oblique streaks, while above it are numbers of 

 small circular pale blue spots. Anal fin similar but paler, with the 

 olive-green band suff'used over the entire outer half, and ornamented 

 with oblique wavy blue lines, which sometimes form reticulations ; 

 carmine spots as in dorsal fin. A broad olive submarginal and 

 a grey marginal band on the caudal fin, both of these being 

 traversed by pale blue arcuate waved lines, the enclosed space 

 being salmon-color with carmine spots on the rays. Pectoral fins 

 hyaline. The outer venti'al ray saffron with a narrow blue 

 margin. Irides brown and silvery with a nari'ow edging of 

 orange on the inside. 



For the pleasui'e of describing this most beautiful fish we are 

 indebted to the commendable liberality of the proprietors of the 

 Royal Aquarium, Bondi, who handed to us the living fish on its 

 being pointed out that it was of a species unknown to us. Its 

 total length is about 6'25 inches, and we are informed that it was 

 obtained at Rose Bay, Port Jackson, on the 8th inst. Register 

 number I. 1418. 



