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width to the orbit. The soft dorsal and anal fins pointed behind ; the 

 caudal long and deeply forked ; the pectorals long, reaching almost 

 to the anal. Colouration dark brown (probably violet in fresh 

 specimens) as far as a line from the commencement of the soft 

 dorsal to the anal spines, behind that grey. The soft dorsal, anal, 

 pectoral, and caudal fins are more or less spotted with brown. 

 Several specimens were captured at Cape Grenville. 



Family La bridge. 

 108. — Chaerops cyanodon. 

 Labrus cyanodus, Richards. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1843, 11, 

 p. 355. 



Lachnolaimus cyanodus, Richards. Voy. Ereb. and Terr. Fishes, 

 p. 131, pi. 55, fig. 5. 



Cape Grenville, speared by tlie natives on the reefs. 



109. — Chaerops cephalotes. 

 Castelnau, Researches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 39. 

 Also speared at Cape Grenville. 



1 10. — Chaerops notatus. 

 Plate XVI., Jig. 1. 



Teeth green ; no posterior canine tooth. Praeoperculurn very 

 minutely serrated. Head as high as long. Pi'ceorbital very high. 

 Scales on the cheek small, numerous, and slightly imbricate. 

 L. lat. 29. Colouration greenish yellow, with a pale blue or pearly 

 centre to each scale ; a blue band from the muzzle through the 

 upper part of the eye to the summit of the operculum, another 

 beneath the eye to the operculum below the first, a third much 

 curved from the angle of the mouth to the operculum at the base 

 of the pectoral fin, and a fourth along the edge of the operculum. 

 There is a large black spot on the back at the base of the last two 

 dorsal spines, and three blue lines on the anal fin. 



This species seems to resemble C. ommopterus in some respects ; 

 but it cannot be the same, unless the description given of that fish 

 in Gunther's Catalogue is very far from correct. 



Speared by the natives at Cape Grenville. 



