BY "W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 413 



spines moderate ; the third rather shorter than the longest ray, 

 and three times and a-half in the length of the head. Olive ; each 

 scale of the back and sides with a black vertical streak at its base ; 

 head, and dorsal, caudal, anal and ventral fins blackish-brown ; 

 the caudal variegated with lighter. 



Norfolk Island, Cape York, Percy Islands, &c. 



245. Lethrinus Eichardsonii, Gunth. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 458. 



Lethrinus hmnatopterus, Bleek, Atl. Ichth. Perc, pi. 53, fig. 4. 



D. 10/9. A. 3/8. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 5/17. 



The height of the body is three times to three and a-half in 

 the total length, the length of the head three and a-half times. 

 The snout is slightly elongate and pointed ; the diameter of the 

 eye is rather more than the width between the orbits, and once 

 and a-half to once and two-thirds in the length of the snout. The 

 maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior nostril. 

 Canine teeth rather small, those of the lateral series conical, none 

 molar-like. Dorsal and anal spines rather stout, the fourth and 

 fifth dorsal longest, but shorter than the rays and about twice 

 and a-half in the length of the head. Caudal fin emarginate. 

 Brownish-olive (in spirits) indistinctly marked with darker, a 

 black roundish blotch between the lateral line and the pectoral 

 fin. (These markings are not represented in Dr. Bleeker's figure). 



Cape York (Gunther). 



246. Lethrinus laticaudis, All. & Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 276, pi. 8, fig. 2. 

 Percy Islands (Chevert Exp.) 



247. Lethrinus papuensis, All. & Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 276, pi. 8, fig, 1. 

 South Coast of New Guinea (Chevert Exp.) 



