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the length of the head. Form, a regular oval ; top of head and 

 snout without scales ; the fourth and fifth dorsal spines longest. 

 Caudal fin strongly forked ; ventrals small, placed considerably 

 behind the pectorals. Head yellow in front and green behind 

 the eyes, with the sides purple, the mouth and throat are of a fine 

 pink, the back light purplish blue, with numerous narrow 

 longitudinal golden bands, the lower parts of the body whitish- 

 pink. The dorsal fin is reddish with a darker margin, the anal 

 similar; the caudal and ventrals are rather dark coloured, pectorals 

 yellowish. Eyes orange. 



Port Phillip. Gippsland Coast. 



279. Latris bilineata, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool, Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 79. 



D. 15/41. A. 2/35. 



Form and proportions the same as in L. Forsteri, the fourth 

 anal ray prolonged into a filament. Colour silvery with the back 

 blue ; two longitudinal broad golden bands on the sides ; towards 

 the middle of the height there is a longitudinal impression like 

 a second lateral line, the inside of the mouth and throat are black. 



From Western Port. Length seven inches. 



280. Latris inobnata, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 79. 



D. 16. 1/40. C. 15. P. 19. 



Profile oval ; height of body three times and one-third in the 

 total length, the head four times and one-third. The spinous 

 dorsal higher than the soft, the fifth, sixth and seventh spines 

 being the longest ; caudal fin strongly forked ; general colour 

 bluish silvery-white, with the back and upper part of the head a 

 deep blue black, which extends to the lateral line, where it ceases 

 at once without any graduation or shade ; at this line there is a 



