STUDIES: IN AUSTRALIAN FISHES- MCCULLOCH. -577 



Cheek scales large, in one row behind the eye and two below , 

 extending well forward on to the anterior portions of the cheeks. 

 Bases of dorsal and anal tins not scaly. Caudal move or less 

 rounded. Colour marking different in the two sexes. Male 

 with a series of dark blotches in a row above the lateral line ; 

 sides of head spotted with brown. Dorsal and anal tins each 

 with two broad dark bands, one at the outer border of the fins 

 and the other near their bases. Hinder, upper and lower borders 

 of caudal dark violet, as are the outer halves of the ventrals. 



Female with dark cross bands on the body, head with brown 

 spots. Dorsal with large dark spots near the bases of the rays 

 and one on the anal. Outer half of ventrals greyish violel 



Hub. — St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia (Steindachuer), 1 

 have not seen any specimens of this species. 



PsEUDOLABlU'S TETKICUS, Richardson. 



(PI. xix.). 



Labrus tetricus, Richardson, Proc, Zool. Soc,, 1840, p. 2-5, and 

 Trans. Zool. Soc, iii., 1849, p. 136. 



Labrus vel Tautoga tetrimts, Richardson, Zool. Erebus and 

 Terror, Fishes, 1848, p. 126, pi. lv., figs. 1-4. 



Labrichthys ephippium, Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xi. (3) 

 1863, p. 116 ; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S, Wale*, vi. 

 1881, p, 84 (non Labrus ephippium, Cuv, and Val.) 



Labrichthys tetrica, Kdunzinger, Arch, fur Naturg., xxxviii. i., 

 1872, p. 37 (with vara, tigripinnis and fuscipiunis) ; hi, 

 Klunzinger, Sitzb, Akad. Wiss. Wien., lxxx. i„ 1879, p. 401, 

 (with var. ocellata) ; Id., Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 

 1882 (1883), p. 124, and 1890 (1891), p. 35. 



Labrichthys vestita, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., i., 1872, 

 p. 151. 



Labrichthys cyanogenys, Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.Wales (2), ii., 1887, p. 242 ; Id., McCulloch, Zool. Res. 

 Endeavour, i., 1911, p. 7Q, pi. xiii. 



[Not Labrichthys tetrica, Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iv., 

 1862, p. 116 ; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, vi., 

 1881, p. 81; Id., Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus„ vi., 1905, p. 70 

 (—Pseudolabrus bosiochii, Castelnau.)]. 



