108 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OE AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



or green with the belly white, and with transverse black spots 

 on the back. 



Port Jackson. Length fourteen inches. 



755. Odax radiatus, Quoy. & Gaiin. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 242. 



Odax lineatus, Richards., Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 133, pi. 



60, fig. 1-5. 



D. 30/31. A. 13. L. lat. 44. L. transv. 4/10. 



Pracoperculum entire ; the first dorsal spine slightly produced ; 

 caudal fin with the middle prolonged, rhombic. Back violet, 

 belly orange-coloured, a carmine red band along the side of the 

 back ; a reddish violet line commences behind the eye, and is 

 forked at the origin of the lateral line, one part running above ; 

 the other below, the convex portion of the lateral ine ; a single 

 reddish- violet line runs along and above its straight portion. 

 Sides of the head with blue longitudinal lines ; operculum with 

 a dark green spot. Dorsal fin with greenish, darker-edged, 

 longitudinal lines, and with a blackish band within its margin ; 

 the anterior spine dark ; a black band, edged with red posteriorly 

 occupies the anterior third of the base of the fin. Caudal fin 

 blackish posteriorly ; anal yellowish ; pectoral rose-coloured ; the 

 outer ventral ray produced, with a red, black-edged longitudinal 

 band. 



West Australia. 



756. Odax obscurus, Castcln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 154. 



D. 28. A. 15. P. 14. C. 13. L. lat. 45. 



Snout not so produced as in 0. Ilkhardsonii, and the scales 

 much larger. Prseopereulum very finely denticulated. General 

 colour purplish-black, the upper part of the head lighter, the 

 sides of tho head with numerous narrow, fiexuous red linos ; eye 



