880 NEW FISHES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 



Colour, recent, reddish olive with stains of crimson on the base 

 of pectoral, and on the dorsal and anal especially along then- 

 bases. Rest of the fins green. A spot on the axil and one 

 between the 3rd and 4th dorsal spines deep blue. Pectoral and 

 upper lip pinky yellow. 



Length, 7 inches. Locality, Moreton Bay. Collected by 

 Captain Towneley, St. Helena. 



Labrichthys sexlineatus. 



A posterior canine. Scales of the cheeks in three series. 

 Canines \. Tubules of scales bifid. Caudal truncate. 



Colour, (in spirit) upper half of the web between the first three 

 dorsal spines black, an obscure dark blotch on the base of the 

 caudal above and below, a black stripe along the back from the 

 upper part of the orbit, two on the side convei^ging towards the 

 orbit and continued as one on the snout, the upper commencing on 

 the caudal peduncle as black spots, the other vanishing beneath the 

 pectoral, the fourth obscure, from the infra orbital to the base of 

 the pectoral, the fifth from the angle of the preoperculum passes 

 below the pectoral to the abdomen, the sixth on the chest and 

 abdomen. Two obscure stripes on the lower side of the caudal 

 peduncle. Dark blotches on the anterior part of the web of the 

 soft dorsal, above them a faint narrow dark band. 



Length, 4 inches. Locality, Barrier Reef. 



Labrichthys rex. 

 Lat. 26. 



A posterior canine. Six rows of scales on the cheeks, two behind 

 the orbit. Caudal subconcave, lobes a little prolonged. Canines ;. 



Colour, recent, olive brown to olive grey, stained more or less 

 with pink with six indistinct subvertical bands across the trunk. 

 Two oblique bands converging towards the end of the caudal 

 peduncle and a bx-oad one across the middle of the caudal. A. 

 broad black band on the centre of the first four dorsal webs and 

 spines. Soft dorsal pink with or without three cloudy patches at 

 the base. Anal pink posteriorly. A greater or less pink patch on 

 the cheek. Two dark lines from the orbit to the lips and two 



