NOTES ON 3FISHES FKOM WESTERN AtJSTRALIA — WAITE. 1 85 



Therapon truttaceus, Macleay. 

 Specimens from the Leonard River, North-western Australia, 

 do not appear to differ from those first described from the 

 Endeavour River. The species was afterwards recognised by 

 Zeitz from several streams in Central Australia.^ 



Helotes sexlineatus, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 The form from West Australia described by Jenyns as Helotes 

 octolineatus^ was regarded by Castelnau" as a variety of H. 

 sexlineatus. The specimens before me, one from Mandurah and 

 the other from Fremantle, support this view. The characters 

 relied upon by Jenyns were seven anal rays instead of ten, eight 

 body-lines in place of six; the soft dorsal and anal fins spotted, 

 the nature of the striae on the crown, and one or two other minor 

 points. Ill our specimens there are eight longitudinal lines on 

 the body, ten anal rays, no spots discernable on the fins, and the 

 striiw on the crown as described in H. ociolineatus, these specimens 

 are therefore intermediate and show that the name must be sunk 

 as a synonym. 



Pentapus vitta, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Locality. — Mandurah. 



GoNiiSTius viTTATUS, Garrett. 



Examples from the Abrolhos islands in no way difl'er from 

 those taken in Port Jackson and at Lord Howe Island ; the 

 species was first described from the Sandwich Islands. 



PsEUDOLABRUS RUBER, Castelnau. 



(Plate xxviii.) 



Labrichthys rubra. Cast., Res. Fish. Aust., p. 37. 



? Labrichthys bleekeri, McCoy, (non Cast.) Prod. Zool. Vict., Dec. 

 xiv., pi. 134, 1887. 



D. ix. 11; A. iii. 10; V. i. 5; P. 13; C. 12 + 2; L. lat. 26; 

 L. tr. 3 + 8. 



Length of head slightly less than the height of the body and 

 3'1 in the total length, caudal 4'7 in the same. The eye is one- 

 sixth the length of the head, the interorbital space is rather flat 

 and one-fourth more than the diameter of the eye, the length of 

 the snout one-third more than the same. The upper profile of the 

 head forms a low curve, the whole curve of the lower surface of 

 the body is slightly more convex than that of the upper. The 



■» Zeitz— Eep. Horn Sci. Exped., ii., 1896, p. 176. 

 5 Jenyns — Voy. Beagle, ill., 1842, p. 18. 

 « Castelnau— Ees. Fish. Aust., 1875, p. 9. 



