92 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



The height of the body is a little more more than one-third of 

 the total length ; snout subconieal ; canine teeth of moderate 

 size. Caudal fin rounded, with the lobes slightly produced in 

 adult specimens. Tubules of the lateral line moderately branched. 

 Greenish-brown : head with round yellow spots, body with series 

 of smaller dots. The spinous dorsal fin brownish, with red 

 margin, and black dots on the spines ; the soft dorsal red ; anal 

 and ventral ivith numerous, very small yellow dots; caudal green, 

 yellow spotted. 



Cape York. Length eight inches. 



724. Ciieilinus aurantiacus, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 70. 



D. 9/11. A. 3/10. L, lat. 23. L. transv. 3/7. 



Body rather elongate and compressed, the height three times 

 and three-quarters in the total length ; head four times and one- 

 third in the same ; eye four times in the length of the head. 

 Head rather concave ; two rows of scales on the cheek ; radiant and 

 reticulated round the eye and prreoperculum ; canine teeth rather 

 long ; snout pointed, not longer than the eye ; the lower jaw 

 longer than the upper ; caudal fin large, formed of four long and 

 five or six shorter rays. Colour (in spirits) orange with the back 

 carmine ; the dorsal and anal fins yellow, Avith a broad external 

 black band and a series of feeble, obscure spots near the body ; 

 the space between the first and second dorsal spines is black, and 

 the sides of the caudal fin are obscure, there are also traces of 

 brown spots on the back, and on the head round the eyes ; the 

 ventral fins have their first half orange, the other black ; the 

 pectorals are entirely of a fine reddish-orange. 



South Australia (Castelnau). 



Genus Ciieilolabrus, All. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 315. 

 North-oast Australia. 



