STUDIES IN' AUSTRALIAN PISHES— MCCULLOCH. :'> s "> 



Specimens examined. — Pour from near Sydney, two from 

 Moreton Bay and one from Lord Howe Island. Length 

 277-300 mm. 



II, ih. Botany Bay, northwards to Caloundra near Moreton 

 Bay : Lord Howe Island. 



Pseudolarrus paribus, Richardson. 



Tatiloga parila, Richardson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1850, p. 70, and 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), vii., 185], p. 286. 



Labrichthys parila, Giinther, Brit. Mas. Cat, Fish., iv., 1862, p. 

 117; Id., Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict,, ii., 1«73, p. 

 137; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vi., 1881', 

 p. 81. 



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

 p. 401; Id., MeCulloch, Rec. W. Anstr. Mus., i., 1912, p 

 90, p|. xii. 



Labrichthys rubra, Castelnan, Res. Fish. Anstr. (Vict. Offic. Rec. 

 Philad. Exhib.), 1875, p. 37 ; Id., Kluuzinger, Sitzb. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien. lxxx. i,, 1879, p. 403; Id., Macleay Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vi., 1881, p. 86. 



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

 402; Id., Waite, Rec. Austr. Mas,, iv., 1902, p. 185, pi. 

 xxviii. 



I have already suggested the identity of P. parilus and P. 

 ruber and having since examined another specimen which has 

 almost as much the markings of ruber as of parila, I have now 

 no hesitation in uniting them. 



Cheek scales in one or two rows, usually in one above and two 

 below. Bases of dorsal and anal tins not scaly. Upper pectoral 

 rays longest. Caudal more or less rounded. 



P. parilus form. — Greenish, spotted with brown, the spots 

 tending to form five more or less distinct cross bands. Brown lines 

 radiating from the eye. With or without broad darker markings 

 enclosing lighter interspaces on the lower parts of the head. 

 Dorsal and anal with light and dark spots, the latter being most 

 distinct above the body bands ; a large anterior dorsal spot. 



