3TUDTES IN Al'STIUM A\ FISHES — MCI T l.l I >C II. 371 



Bay, with the exception of P. sexlineatua, which came 

 from the " Barrier Reef." P. dorsalis and P. melttnurw, 

 Macleay, were described from Pod Jackson. The type specimen 

 of /'. auntheri was simply said to have come from Australia, but 

 the species lias been recognised under thai name by de Vis from 

 Moreton Bay, and by Waite from Kremant le, Western Australia. 

 The specimen figured was caught at Cape Solander by Mr. J. H. 

 Wright, who presented it to the Trustees. 



PSEUDOLABRUS LUGDLENTUS, RicJiardsoti. 



Labrus vel Tccutoga iuculentus, Richardson, Zool. Erebus and 

 Terror, Fishes, 1848, p. 130. 



Lairichthys luculenta, Giinther, Brit, Mus. Cat. Fish., iv. 1862, 

 p. 116: Li, Castelnau, Proc. Linn, Soc, N, S. Wales, iii., 

 1879, p, 354; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S, Wales, 

 vi., 1881, p. 82; Id., Ogilby, Cat. Fish., N. S. Wales, 1886, 

 p. 45, and Mem. Austr. Mus., ii„ 1889. p, 67. 



Pseudolabrus Iuculentus, Waite, Rec, Austr. Mus., v., p. 29, pi. 

 - iv., fig. 1, and Mem. N. S. Wales Nat, Club, 1904, p. 38, 

 and Trans. N, Z. Inst,, xlii,, 1910, p. 378. 



Cheek scales in about five rows. Bases of the dorsal and 

 anal fins scaly. Caudal truncate or slighty rounded. Upper 

 rays o£ pectoral longest, the margin of the fin rounded. Greenish, 

 the scales with brownish centres. Two or three narrow brown 

 bands extend from the snout through the eye to the back 

 of the head, of which the upper ones are less distinct than the 

 lower, or all may be absent. Throat and lower part of head 

 sometimes with many brown spots. A broad black bar across 

 the base of the pectorals. Three large black blotches beneath 

 the soft dorsal, in fi'ont of each of which is a similar white 

 blotch ; both light and dark blotches may be wanting. A dark 

 spot is sometimes present on the anterior part of the dorsal fin, 

 which in life is also tipped with scarlet. The soft dorsal is pale 

 orange on the upper half, with narrow, irregular, blue lines 

 through it ; lower portion green. Anal green with three bands 

 of pale orange. Caudal, pectorals, and ventral s greenish. 



Hah. — This species is known from Norfolk and Lord Howe 

 Islands the Kermadec Islands, Port Jackson and Western 

 Australia. There are forty-one specimens, 47-185 mm, long, 

 in the Australian. Museum from Lord Howe Island, and one 

 from "Cape Solander, Botany Bay, which was presented by Mr. 

 J. H. Wright. 



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