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the lateral lino ceases below the posterior portion'of the dorsal 

 fin. 



Pacific Ocean. 



677. Parma microlepis, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 57. 



D. 13/18. A. 2/16. L. lat. 37. L. transv 4/13. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the length exclusive of 

 the caudal fin ; teeth very narrow and slender ; prajorbital much 

 narrower than the orbit. The fourth and fifth dorsal spines are 

 the longest, the posterior being shorter than those in the middle ; 

 caudal fin emarginate. Brown, with two blue lines on each side 

 of the back : the upper commences below the spinous dorsal fin, 

 and extends above the orbit to the snout ; the lower from the 

 ocellus above the lateral line to the orbit. A large black ocellus 

 edged with blue on the four posterior dorsal spines ; body with 

 scattered blue dots, the dots forming a series or an uninterrupted 

 line below the orbit ; anal and ventral fins blackish ; a blue spot 

 posteriorly in the axil of the dorsal fin. 



Port Jackson. 



678. Parma squamipinnis, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 58. 



D. 12-13/15-17. A. 2/15. L. lat. 40. L. transv. 5/14. 



The height of the body is one-half the length, exclusive of the 

 caudal fin. Snout a little longer than the eye. Teeth narrow, 

 compressed, of moderate length, about fifty in the upper jaw. 

 Praoorbital scaly, rhombic, its width above the angle of the mouth, 

 being two-thirds of that of the orbit. The scales on the upper 

 surface of the head advance nearly to the extremity of the snout ; 

 prreoperculuin covered with small scales, a narrow space round 

 its margins being naked. Scales on the operculum half the size 

 of those on the middle of the body. The fourth to eighth dorsal 



