96 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



D. 9/11. A. 3/11. L. lat. 28. L. trans. 2/9. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 rather less than one-fourth of the total length. Caudal fin 

 rounded. Eed : most of the scales along the middle of the sides 

 with a blackish spot ; six blackish spots along the back ; sides 

 of the belly with numerous crescent-shaped vertical streaks ; a 

 deep violet spot behind the eye ; a curved silvery streak from the 

 angle of the mouth to below the orbit, bent downwards over the 

 operculum to the interoperculum. Dorsal fin with numerous, 

 oblique, undulated violet lines, descending obliquely backwards, 

 and generally with two black ocelli between the two anterior 

 spines and behind the first ray ; anal dotted all over with black ; 

 caudal rays with small red dots. 



Australia (Macgillivraj). 



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 Genus Pseudojulis, Bleek. 



Body compressed, slender, covered with scales of moderate size 

 (L. lat. less than 30) ; head naked ; lateral line not interrupted ; 

 scales on the thorax smaller than those of the body. No 

 posterior canine tooth; anterior teeth conical. Dorsal spines 

 nine. 



Indian and Australian Seas ; California. 



732. Pseudojulis lineata, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 138. 



D. 9/12. A. 3/12. 



The height of the body is contained a little over four times in 

 the total length, and is about equal to the length of the head ; 

 the teeth are conical and directed forwards, two long ones in front ; 

 caudal fin rounded and scaly on the basal half ; the pectorals 

 have thirteen rays ; the ventrals are pointed. The general colour 

 (in spirits) is an uniform light brown, with numerous longitudinal 

 and regular lines of a darker colour, extending all along the body ; 



