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the back at the end of the spinous dorsal fin. Length four and 

 a-half inches. 



Cape York. 



Genus Ciieilinus, Lacep. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales ; lateral 

 line interrupted ; cheeks with two series of large scales ; prae- 

 operculum entire ; teeth in a single series, two canines in each 

 jaw, not bent outwards ; no posterior canine tooth ; lower jaw 

 not produced backwards. Dorsal spines sub-equal in length; 

 the third anal spine longest. 



Tropical seas of India, China, and Polynesia. 



722. Cheilinus oxyrhynciius, Bleek. 



Atl. Ichth.tab.28,f. 2.— Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 133.— Casteln. 

 Eesearches on the Fishes Australia, p. 40. 



D. 9/10. A. 3/8. L. lat. 23. 



The height of the body is less than the length of the head, and 

 a little more than one-fourth of the total length ; the depth of 

 the head is contained once and three-fifths in its length ; snout 

 produced, conical, with the jaws ecpial ; tubules of the lateral 

 line simple. Caudal fin rounded. Yellowish-olive (in spirits); 

 snout without markings ; reticulated brown lines on the hinder 

 half of the head, on the body, and on the soft portions of the 

 vertical fins ; suboperculum crossed by several brown lines ; two 

 irregular blackish blotches on the tail ; dorsal fin with a blackish 

 spot between the first and second spines. 



Cape York. Length eleven inches. 



723. Cheilinus ciilorurus, Bl. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 32.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth., tab. 27, f. 3. 



Cheilinus guttatus, Bleek., Casteln., Ees. Fishes Aust. p. 40. 



D. 10/9. A. 3/8. L. lat 22. 



