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Cuvier from King George's Sound. Ifc comes very near to 

 cyanostigma, but the body seems to be much shorter and higher, 

 and the opercular teeth different. By its colouration, it resembles 

 also Plectropoma maculatum, Bloch ; very handsomely figured by 

 Dr. Gunther in the Jour. Mus. Godeffroy, but differs equally by 

 its high body, the form of the caudal, &c. 



Plecteopoma annulatum. 

 Plectropoma annulatum. ; Gunther's Catal., vol. I., p. 158. 



Body short ; praeopercle serrated behind ; having a flat ser- 

 rated spine at the angle and two small ones below; opercle 

 serrated below, with two strong spines near its angle ; caudal fin 

 rounded ; dorsal, with its two portions so deeply divided as to 

 almost have the appearance of two fins ; it is formed of ten 

 spines, of which the fourth and fifth are the longest, and of 

 eighteen rays ; the anal has three spines and seven rays. 



The general colour is of a handsome light brown, with six 

 broad transverse black bands, of which two are placed on the tail ; 

 there is a longitudinal black stripe in front of the head, and 

 three others on the upper part of the head, running obliquely — 

 two from the back to the eye, and one on the opercle ; those of 

 the back extend on the dorsal fin. 



The dorsal and caudal are of the colour of the body, and the 

 other fins are of a beautiful crimson. The specimen is a little 

 under nine inches long. 



This sort is nearly allied but very distinct, from Pledropoma 

 nigro-fubrum of the Western Coast, which it seems to represent on 

 the Eastern one. Dr. Gunther has very well described this fish, 

 but did not know its habitat. 



Peiacanthus maceacanthus. 

 Priacanthus macracanthus ; Cuv. Val., vol. III., p. 108. 



BleeJceri, Cast ; Proceed. Zool. Soc. Victoria, vol. 



II., p. 100. 



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



the total length, without the caudal fin ; head three times and 



one-third in the same ; diameter of the eye more than one-third 



the length of the head ; the angle of the prseopercle having a 



