BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S. 44 1 



The colour is blackish, with the scales of the body more or 

 less silvery in the centre; two ill-defined silvery longitudinal bands 

 are traceable on the caudal half of the body.* The fins are all 

 black, the anal and ventrals have a lightish coloured edge. 



The length of this fine fish from the snout to the extremity of 

 the tail is 2 faet 8J inches. 



Since writing the foregoing I have seen three species of the 

 Cirrhitidce from South Australia just received by the Australian 

 Museum. One of them much resembles this Fish in many respects. 

 It has large scales, naked cheeks, and a more elongate form than 

 Chilodactylus, and might I think be placed in the present genus, 

 but I am inclined to think that it is identical with the C. nigricans 

 of Richardson, a species abundant at King George's Sound, and 

 which he describes as being of a more elongate form than usual in 

 the genus, and as being without scales on the cheek, though that 

 he ascribes to accident. The other two South Australian species 

 evidently belong to Mr. De Yis's genus Dactylophora (Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. vm. P. 284.) One of them indeed is 

 his D. semimaculata. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a specimen of Comes nodulosus. He stated 

 that an unique specimen was possessed by Mr. Taylor, from 

 whose collection it was first described by Sowerby, in 1865, which 

 was said to have come from Australia. Hitherto no second 

 specimen had been recorded from Australia, but the one now 

 exhibited had been sent to him by Mr. Flateau, of Melbourne, 

 with a number of West Australian shells, to be named, and he 

 concluded from that circumstance that it also had come from that 

 locality. Dr. Cox also exhibited a specimen of Conus abbas, a 

 rare species from West Australia. 



Dr. Cox also exhibited some fine specimens of " water-stones," 

 with globules of water enclosed. They were obtained from near 



* This only shows on one side and is probably accidental. 



