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Hab.- South and South-eastern Australia, from Port Jackson 

 to Tasmania and Kin ^ Greorge Sound, I have examined Eour 

 specimens from near Sydney, eighl from Victoria, one from 

 Tasmania, and one from South Australia. 



Genus Austrolabrus, Steindachner. 



Austrolabrus, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 lxxxviii., i., 1883 (1884), p. 1102; Id., (iiil. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiv., IH02, p. 404 (Labrichthys maculatus, 

 Macleay). 



Steindachner relied upon the large scales covering the dorsal, 

 anal and caudal lins to separate maculatus from the other 

 species of Pseudolabrtis : tins character is, however, shared Iry 

 /'. guntheri and J", luculentus, which appear to me to be true 

 Pseudolabri, while P. bostockii is intermediate between the 

 species with scaly tins and those without. One may, perhaps, 

 use the absence of free pencils projecting from the spines of 

 the dorsal and anal fins as a distinguishing character, but it 

 must be noted that in Steindachner's figures of A. maculatus 

 they are shown as present in the female though not in the 

 male. They are wanting in the only two I have examined, in 

 which the fins are formed exactly as shown on Plate v. of 

 Steindachner's paper. If this character is not reliable I can 

 find no other to separate Austrolabrus from Pseudolabrus. 

 The shape of the pectorals and the scaly fins distinguishes it 

 from Pictilabrus, and the latter character and the different fin 

 formula from Mupetrichthys ; Steindachner describes and figures 

 twelve rays in the dorsal fin but in my two specimens the last 

 ray. though widely branched from the base, must be counted 

 as a single split ray. 



Austrolabrus maculatus, Macleay. 

 (Plate xvi.). 



Labrichthys maculata, Macleay, Proc, Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales 

 vi., 1881, p, 89. 



Labrichthys (Austrolabrus) maculata, Steindachner, Sitzb, Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, lxxxviii. i., 1883 (1884), p. 1100, pi. v., and 

 pi. vi., tig. ]. 



Austrolabrus maculatus, Mill, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv.. 1892, 

 p. 404. 



