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832. Aulopus purpurissatus, Bichards. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes V., p. 403. 



" Sergeant Baker " of the Fishermen. 



D. 19-22. A. 13-14. V. 9. L. lat. 51. L. transv. 6/9. 



The length of the head is contained thrice and one-fourth in 

 the length of the body (caudal fin excluded) ; the second and 

 third dorsal rays produced into a long filament in the males. The 

 colours of this fish are very brilliant, consisting chiefly of purple 

 and red. 



Port Jackson ; rare in Melbourne. 



Genus Chlorophthalmus, Bonap. 



Head and body rather elongate, rather compressed behind, 

 covered with scales of moderate size. Cleft of the mouth wide ; 

 maxillary well developed, dilated behind. Teeth minute, in 

 narrow bands in the jaws, on the vomer, the palatine bones and 

 the tongue. Eye largo. Pectoral and ventral fins well developed ; 

 the latter nine-rayed, inserted at no great distance behind the 

 pectorals, somewhat behind the origin of the dorsal fin. Dorsal 

 fin somewhat before the middle of the length of the body, short, 

 with eleven or twelve rays ; adipose fin small ; anal short ; 

 caudal forked. Gill-opening very wide ; branchiostegals ten ; 

 pseudobranchise well developed. 



Mediterranean. Australian Seas. 



833. Chlorophthalmus nigripinnis, Gunth. 



Gunth., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, Vol. II., p. 182. 



B. 7. D. 11. A. 9. L. lat. 50. 



The length of the head is contained thrice and three-fourths in 

 the total length (without caudal). The eye is large, two-fifths 

 of the length of the head, and three times the width of the 

 interorbital space. The distance of the adipose fin from the 



