98 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



11 The height of the body equals the length of the head, and 

 is somewhat more than one-fifth of the total length ; the outer 

 caudal rays are produced into filaments ; the length of the ventral 

 fins is two-thirds of that of the pectoral in half grown specimens, 

 three-fourths in adults. Colours of dried specimens : anterior 

 part of back and thorax brownish-olive ; body greenish, each 

 scale with a vertical streak ; head violet, with three green bands 

 edged with darker : the upper from the eye to the origin of the 

 lateral line, the middle from below the eye to the hind part of 

 the suboperculum, the lower from the angle of the mouth to the 

 suboperculum ; sometimes a fourth on the interoperculum. 

 Pectoral fin with a broad, oblique, black band across its posterior 

 half, and with a black spot in the axil ; a black spot beteen the 

 second and third dorsal spines ; two fine brown lines run along 

 the whole length of the dorsal fin, one along its base, the other 

 above the middle of its height ; they are the edges of a broad, 

 brownish band running along the middle of the fin ; anal with a 

 similar line running nearer to its base than to its margin, and 

 separating the brown basal portion from the green outer one ; a 

 yellow band along the upper and lower margins of the caudal." 

 (Gunther). 



North-east Australia (Rayner). 



735. Julis Adelaidensis, Casteln. 



Researches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 35. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the length exclusive of 

 the caudal fin, the length of the head is three times and one-third 

 in the same. Dorsal spines and rays very much alike ; caudal fin 

 rounded ; lateral line about 50. Body of a beautiful pink colour, 

 silvery beneath ; head pearly white with its upper parts of an 

 obscure blue ; on the anterior part of the cheek are three or four 

 narrow blue lines, bordered with black, and directed obliquely 

 downwards ; dorsal fin yellowish, with a broad longitudinal pink 

 band extending on all its length higher than the width of the fin. 



