BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 81 



A posterior canine tooth. The interopercles overlapping each 

 other. Four anterior canine teeth in the lower jaw, two in the 

 upper ; cheek with ahout six series of small scales. Greenish or 

 reddish, each scale below the lateral line with a vertical silvery 

 line ; a black spot on the two first dorsal spines ; sometimes two 

 irregular brown lines along the snout, and two blackish spots on 

 the base of the soft dorsal fin. Scales of the back extending on 

 to the base of the dorsal fin. 



East and West Coast of Australia. Norfolk Island. 



700. Labiuchthys tetbica, Eichards. 



Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 126, pi. 55, f. 1. — Gunth., Cat. Fishes 



IV., p. 116. 



D. 9/11. A. 3/10. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 3/9. 



A posterior canine tooth. Two anterior canine teeth in each 

 jaw ; cheek with only two series of narrow scales, a large portion 

 of it being naked. Uniform purplish-red : vertical fins dark at 

 the base, whitish towards the margins, and black at the tips ; 

 pectorals with a black spot superiorly at base. 



Tasmania, South Australia, and King George's Sound. 



701. Labiuchthys paeila, Richards. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1851, Vol. VII., p. 286.— Gunth., Cat. 



Fishes IV., p. 117. 



D. 9/11. A. 3/10. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 3/10. 



No posterior canine tooth. Two anterior canine teeth in each 

 jaw ; cheek with only one (indistinct) series of scales, the greater 

 part of it being naked. Greenish, irregularly spotted and dotted 

 with brown, the spot on the anterior dorsal spines being darker 

 than the others. 



West Australia (Richardson). Port Jackson (Castelnau, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 389.) 

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