78 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISIIES, 



anal is shorter than the base of the fin. Caudal fin emarginate 

 with the lobes produced. Colour uniform red, with an oblong- 

 deep black spot at the base of the sixth and eighth dorsal spines, 

 and a small black speck on the fifth and ninth. 



Port Jackson. 



693. Cossyipius Gouldii, Richards. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1851, Vol. VII., p. 288.— Gunth., Cat. 



Fishes IV., p. 111. 



11 Blue Gropcr" of Sydney Fishermen. 



D. 11/11. A. 3/11. L. lat. 39. L. transv. 6/14. 



No posterior canine teeth. Upper profile of head bent down- 

 wards in a regular curve ; prreorbital elevated ; scales on the 

 cheek not imbricate ; prasoperculum not serrated ; dorsal fin scaly; 

 caudal truncated. Colour uniform dark purple. 



Western Australia. Port Jackson. 



This species should be placed in another genus. It is a very 

 large fish, attaining a length of from three to four feet. 



Genus Labriciitiiys, Bleek. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales ; snout 

 more or less pointed. Opercles scaly ; cheeks more or less seal}- ; 

 prreoperculum not serrated ; lateral line continuous. Teeth in 

 the jaws in a single series ; sometimes an interior series of smaller 

 teeth to replace the others. Posterior canine tooth generally 

 present. Formula of the fins D. 9/11. A. 3/10. 



Pacific and Indian Archipelago. 



694. Labriciitiiys celidota, Forst. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 113. — Richards., Voy. Erebus and 

 Terror, p. 53, pi. 31, f. 1-5. 



D. 9/11. A. 3/10. L. lat. 27. L. trans v. 3/9. Vert. 10/13. 



