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to the roof of the gullet, the others showing the incorpo- 

 rated teeth, which form a snioothish, granular surface, as 

 in Cossjjphus or Lachnolainins. The under pharyngeals 

 have the general shape of the same bone in Labrus, but 

 the teeth are incorporated with it, and merely produce the 

 same kind of granular surface that exists in the upper pha- 

 ryngeals. 



The scales are of moderate size, of various breadth in 

 different parts, but generally have the free edge curved 

 in the arc of a circle, the sides straight and parallel, and 

 the bases, which show a slight indication of a middle lobe, 

 are marked by from twelve to twenty-two fan-like furrows. 

 The lines of structure on the sides are longitudinal, and 

 the free edge is striated with minute corresponding teeth 

 or crenatures on the edge. There are about thirty-eight 

 scales on the lateral line, each with a simple sti'aight tube 

 (fig. 5) : this line makes a descending curve over the end 

 of the pectoral, and then runs straight. The dorsal com- 

 mences over the base of the pectoral : its spinous rays are 

 slender, and become as fine and flexible as hairs at their 

 tips : the first one is the tallest, and rather exceeds the 

 height of the body ; the others decrease rapidly to the 

 fourth, which is almost one half shorter, and then in- 

 crease more gradually to the fifteenth, diminishing again 

 slightly to the soft rays, which also decrease a little, 

 giving an undulated outline to the fin. The anterior 

 jointed rays are unbranched, the ]5osterior ones merely 

 forked at the tips. The anal has four unjointed rays, the 

 first one being short and closely incumbent on the second, 

 but having also a hair-like tip. The last jointed ray is di- 

 vided quite to the base ; the anterior ones are unbranched. 

 The fin ends farther from the caudal than the anal. The 

 caudal is widely elliptical, with an acute tip like some of 

 the Gobioids, and embraces the rounded end of the tail by 

 its short lateral rays. The pectorals are rounded, and the 

 ventrals, which are attached under the third and fourth 

 dorsal spines, have the first and second jointed rays pro- 

 longed. The spinous ray ends in a fine hair-like point, like 

 those of the dorsal and anal : it is represented in the figure 

 as jointed, through oversight. 



In Mr. Bauer's drawing the ground colour of the body 

 is mountain-green, with three orange-red lines running 

 along the back, and seven deep yellow streaks on the sides. 

 The uppermost of these streaks includes the fore part of 

 the lateral line, and rises above it posteriorly. The lateral 

 line is orange throughout. The head is yellow, with blue 

 lines, which posteriorly pass into the green of the body. 

 The dorsal is green, marked by four reddish -yellow lines, 

 and an oblong deep blue stripe at the base, traversed by a 

 yellow line. The anal is green, with two reddish-yellow 

 streaks ; and the rays of the caudal are orange, with blue 

 tips. The ventrals are green, without markings; and the 

 pectorals are reddish. The lines shown on the figure are 

 drawn from the specimen in which the colours have 

 changed, the lines on the back to carmine, the large spot 

 on the back to black with carmine hues, and the caudal to 

 brown.* 



* I suspect that Mr. Gvessein's figure was painted from a specimen 

 which had ah'eady begun to decay, so that its green had changed to 

 blue, &c. 



The stomach is a straight tube, passing evenly into a 

 delicate and more slender intestine, but too much decayed 

 in the specimen for exact examination. The air-bladder 

 is large, with an obtuse end touching the diaphragm, and 

 the other extremity tapering to a fine point, which runs a 

 little past the anus. 



Length 7|- inches. 



Hab. King George's Sound. 



The "toobitooit" or "toobetoobit" of the natives near 

 Albany, King Geoi-ge's Sound, seems to be allied either to 

 Oda.v or Scants. Dep. Ass. Comm. Gen. Neill, from 

 whose drawing alone the species is known to us, reckons 

 the rays as follows: "D. 17 soft and 11 fleshy; A. 11 

 fleshy ; P. 11 ; V. 4 strong rays." His figure (No. 3-3 lib. 

 citat.) represents a subfusiform fish, tapering gradually 

 from the pectoral region to the tail, which is about half the 

 height of the nape. The back is less convex than the 

 belly, the head less obtuse than a Scarus,hni more so than 

 is usual in Oda.v. The lateral line straight and continuous. 

 The jaws scaroid. Ventrals under the middle of the pec- 

 torals, and beginning of the dorsal. Dorsal spinous rays, 

 which would appear from Mr. Neill's note above quoted to 

 be flexible, decreasing in height from the first to the seven- 

 teenth, which is less than half as high. The jointed por- 

 tion of the fin rises abruptly to a greater height than any 

 of the spinous rays, and the anal is like to it. The naked 

 trunk of the tail forms a fifth of the whole length of the 

 fish. The caudal has the upper and under angles pro- 

 jecting considerably, but is otherwise even at the end. 

 The fish is black, with a greenish tinge on the belly. A 

 spot round the anterior nostril, the inner part of first pec- 

 toral ray, and a stripe next the upper and under caudal 

 rays, of a brilliant blue. The scales, of which three ac- 

 company the drawing, are moderately large, oblong, and 

 rounded at both ends. Their bases are marked by ten or 

 twelve fan-like lines, and their exposed disks covered with 

 thick epidermis. This fish is an inhabitant of rocky 

 shores, and is rare. The specimen was speared by a na- 

 tive, and as it is said to be unknown to the sealers it most 

 likely does not take a hook. From the form of its jaws it 

 feeds most probably either on sea-weeds or corallines. 

 Length of drawing 13 inches. 



Hab. King George's Sound. 



Labros inscriptus, vel Tautoga inscripta. Richardson. 



Radii:— B. ; D. 9|14; A. 3|10; C. 12|; P. 13; V. 1|5. 



Plate LVL, figs. 1, 2. 



The profile of this fish, when its jaws are fully retracted, 

 is a regular ellipse, with a vertical diameter equal to one- 

 third of the transverse one. The head is acute in profile, but 

 the ellipse is lost in the trunk of the tail, whose height is 



