BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 107 



•where it disappears, or is replaced by a series of indistinct dark 

 blotches. 



Tasmania. Port Jackson. 



752. Odax fhexatus, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 241. 



D. 31. A. 13. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 3/11. 



Preoopercnlum. entire ; dorsal fin nearly even ; a dark brown 

 band from the snout, through the eye, to the end of the operculum ; 

 a silvery band below the brown one, and continued on to the tail, 

 •where it is gradually lost ; a blackish spot anteriorly on the 

 dorsal fin. 



West Australia. 



753. Odax Kichardsoxii, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 241.— Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc, 



Victoria, Vol. I., p. 152. 

 " The Stranger" of the Melbourne Fishermen. 



D. 17/13. A. 3/11-12. L. lat. 60. L. transv. 7/20. 



Prceoperculum finely serrated posteriorly ; none of the fin rays 

 produced ; dorsal fin even ; caudal rounded. Colour of fresh 

 specimens green, or blue, or red, tinged with yellow, with six to 

 eight rather obscure dark cross-bands ; belly white ; sides of 

 head with blue and yellow bands. 



Port Phillip. 



754. Odax semifasciatits, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 241. — Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 390. 



"Rock Whiting" of the Sydney Fishermen. 

 D. 18/12. A. 2/11. L. lat. 63. L. trans. 15-20. 

 Very much like O. Richardsonii, but with the prrcoperculuni 

 entire. The colour is sky-blue with a golden spot on each scale, 



