376 RECORDS OF HIE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. • 



Hah. — This species is common in New Zealand and Tasmania, 

 and is also recorded from South Australia and Botany Bay, New 

 South Wales. The specimen referred to by Giinther from Port 

 Essington, North Australia, is doubtless some other species. 



PSEUDOLABRUS BOSTOCKII, CttstehlCM. 



Labrichthys tetrica, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iv., 1862, p. 

 116 (part.) ; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, vi„ 

 1881, p. 81 (appied from Giinther). 



Labrichthys bostockii, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., ii., 1873, 

 p. 137 ; Id., Macleay, Loc. cit., p. 85. 



Labrichthys biserialis, Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. 

 Ixxx.'i., 1879, p. 402. 



Pseudolabrus bostocldi, Gill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xiv., 1892, 

 p, 402; Ic/.,McCulloch, Rec. W. Austr. Mus., i., 19P2, p. 

 91, pi. xi., fig. 1. 



Pseudolabrus biserialis, Grill, Luc, cit., p. 402. 



Pseudolabrus tetricus, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1905, p. 70 

 (nee Richardson). 



Cheek scales in two rows. Bases of dorsal and anal tins scaly. 

 Upper pectoral rays much the longest. Caudal truncate, the tips 

 usually a little produced. Red or green, each scale with a large 

 central darker spot ; a yellow band fi-om above the pectoral base 

 to the middle of the caudal peduncle. Dorsal black basally, then 

 orange and margined with a dark violet line. Anal red, margined 

 with violet and with or without a darker median band. Caudal 

 orange with dark edges. Pectorals and ventrals pink, the 

 former with a black basal band. 



//,,/, — South-western Australia. J have examined one from 

 near Albany, Another from Mandurah,and four from Fremantle. 

 Length, 160-200 mm. 



Psei dolabri S elegans, Steindachner. 



Labrichthys eleyans, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. '\Yi>>. Wien, 

 Ixxxviii, L, 1883 (1884), p. 1102, pi. vi.. ags. 2-::. 



Pseudolabrus eleyans, Gill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xiv,, 1892, p, 

 403. 



