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with a fine dark line. Anal similar in colour with a much narrower 

 purple band situated on the basal fourth of the tin separated from 

 the ground colour by a dark line. Pectoral greenish-yellow, with 

 a black spot in the axil, and a Ijroad oblique black band across 

 its posterior portion; this band forms the margin of the fin above, 

 but narrowing below leaves the hinder margin hyaline. Ventral 

 colourless, except the first ray which darkens to the tip. Caudal 

 with the outer rays somewhat darker than the median ones. 

 Length of specimen 250 mm. 



CORIS AURICULARIS, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 (Plate XXX.) 

 Julis auricularis, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat des Poiss., xiii., 1839, 

 p. 489. 

 Of two specimens received, one was taken at Mandurah on the 

 mainland, the other at the Abrolhos. Both have lost the colour 

 and only the markings remain : the tints, in life, have been 

 described by Richardson from a drawing by Lieut. Emery,^ but 

 as this does not appear to have been published, I have prepared 

 the accompanying illustration, accurate in form, and showing such 

 markings as are traceable on our spirit-faded examples. 



SiPHONOGNATHUS ArGYROPHANES, Eichardson. 

 The type specimen was obtained in King George's Sound. 

 Macleay recorded examples from South Australia, and we now 

 have the species from Fremantle, the first record from the west 

 coast. 



Harpochirus punctatus, Gmelin. 

 Drepane punctata, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., vii., 1831, 

 p. 132. 

 For Australia the species has been recorded from Cape York 

 and also the north west coast, but without more precise habitat ; 

 the specimens forwarded were taken at Broome. 



Although Cantor clearly pointed out that Drepane, Cuv. & Val., 

 was preoccupied (in Lepidoptera)^" later writers have still used it. 



Ch.etodon strigatus, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 The specimens received from Pinjarrah are identical with 

 eastern examples. Although there can be no doubt that 

 Castelnau's Neocho'todon vittatum^^ is the same species, I cannot 

 find the " bifid tooth on the palate " to which that writer refers. 

 Later,'^ he identifies his genus and species from Port Jackson, and 

 omits mention of the palatal tooth, relying on the operculum to 

 distinguish his untenable species. 



9 Eichardson— Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ii., 1843, p. 422. 

 >o Cantor— Cat. Malay Fish, 1850, p. 161. 



11 Castelnau— Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., ii., 1873, p. 130. 



12 Castelnau— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., iii., 1879, p. 375. 



