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show some diversity in colour-pattern, the number of cross-bands varying 

 from seven to ten. In most cases these bands unite on the lateral line and 

 form a longitudinal stripe, the whole of the body below this being without 

 markings. All the structural characters agree with the type. 



Alticus, sp., and Salarias, sp. 



Examples of these two genera have not been specifically determined. 



{I) Petroscirtes rhynorhynchus, Bleeker. 



A small example, 48 mm. in length, is provisionally i-eferred to this 

 species. It was dredged in 12 fathoms, off Meyer Island. 



Norfolk Island. 



The first fish recorded from Norfolk Island appears to be Cichla cul- 

 trata, Forster,* obtained during Cook's second voyage, 10th October, 1774, 

 In Forster's " Descriptiones Animalium "f there is a list of fishes taken 

 between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island, but the same species, under 

 the name Scicena cidtrata, is the only one recorded from Norfolk Island 

 (p. 292). Richardson added a few species, all of which, with the exception 

 of Murcena nubiJa, are included in Bleeker's list, given below. 



The first collected list of fishes from Norfolk Island is that by Bleeker,| 

 who enumerates the following species : — 



Recognition. 



1. Centro pistes solar, Richds. = Am' pis salar, 



Richds. 



2. Lethrinus chrysostomus, Richds. 



3. Psettus argentcus, Richds. = Chcetodon argenteus, 



L. 



4. Cyhium clupeoideum, Cv. = Scomber clupeoides, 



Brouss. 



5. Seriola cuUrata, Richds. = Scicena cuUrata, 



G. Forst. = Cichla cuUrata, BI. 8chn.= 

 Scomber clupeoides, Shaw. (An forte ead. ac. 

 Tijhium clupeoideum, Cv. ?) 



6. Tautoga inscripta, Richds. = Labnis inscriptiis, 



Richds. 



7. Tautoga luculenta, Richds. = Labrus luculentus, 



Richds. 



8. Chanos salmoneus, Cv. = Mugil salmoneus, 



J. R. Forst. = Mugil lavaretoides, Sol. = 

 Lutodeira salmonea, Richds. = Leuciscus 

 {Ptycholepis) salmoneus, Richds. 



Arripis trutta, Forster. 



Lethrinus chrysostomus. 



Rich. 

 Monodactylus argenteus, 



Linn. 



(?) 



Bathysteth us cultratus, 

 Forster. 



P eudolabrus inscriptiis, 



Rich. 

 Pseudolabrus luculentus. 



Rich. 

 Chanos chanos, Forskal. 



* Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, ]). 343. 



t Ed. Lichenstein, 1844, p. 280 et seq. 



J Bleeker, Verhand. der Koninkl. Akad. van Wetens, 1855. 



