BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 83 



a blue band along the middle of the dorsal and anal fins ; a 

 brownish band across the middle of the caudal fin. 



Australia (Bleeker). 



705. Labriciithys Bleekeri, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 148. 



D. 9/11. A. 3/10. L. lat. 25. L. transv. 3/7. 



Two posterior canine teeth ; two anterior canines in each jaw, 

 the lateral teeth decreasing in size backwards with an inner series 

 of smaller and blunter teeth. The opercles are scaly, there are 

 two series of scales on the cheeks, and the whole head is rough 

 and covered with irregular lines which radiate from the orbit. 

 The height of the body is three times and one-third in the total 

 length ; the length of the head four times ; eye four times and 

 one-third in the length of the head ; the dorsal scales do not 

 extend on the base of the fin ; caudal fin rounded, of thirteen 

 long rays ; pectorals large. Greenish above, dark blue beneath ; 

 a broad black band from the eye to the operculum ; cheeks 

 covered with small white spots ; throat purple, spotted with 

 white ; the scales of the body bordered with carmine. "Fins green : 

 the spinous dorsal with a red tinge, the soft spotted with purple 

 and bordered with red ; the caudal is orange, spotted with carmine; 

 the anal has three series of large, round carmine spots ; the 

 ventrals are pink ; the pectorals yellow. 



Port Phillip. Length ten to twelve inches. 



706. Labriciithys Eichardsoxii, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 150. 



D. 9/11. A. 3/11. L. lat. 26. 



A posterior canine tooth ; the other teeth as in the last species . 

 Three series of scales on the cheek ; the surface of the head very 

 rough ; the dorsal scales do not extend on the base of the fin. 

 Colour light bluish-green, with a black spot on the extrmeity of 



