384 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Specimens examined. — Two specimens from Fremautle and 

 one from Doubtful Island Bay. Length 200-225 mm. 



Hub. — Doubtful Island Bay. King George Sound and Fre- 

 mantle, Western Australia. In the *' Records of the Western 

 Australian Museum " I have given my reasons for supposing 

 Castelnau's record of this species from Port Jackson to be 

 incorrect. 



P. ruber form. — Reddish-brown in spirits with five broad brown 

 blotches descending from the back ; numerous small dark spots 

 on the head and body. A series of irregular dark marks radia- 

 ting from the eye. Cheeks and throat with broad silvery 

 patches enclosed by brown bands. Scales of lower surface of 

 body with lai'ge silver spots. Dorsal and anal with light or 

 dark spots, or both ; the membrane darker in the region of the 

 dark body marks. 



Specimens examined' — One from South Australia; two from 

 Houtman Abrolhos, and one from Fremantle; two from Western 

 Australia including a specimen received from Count Castelnau 

 by the National Museum, Melbourne. 



Hab. — South and Western Australia. 



PSEUDOLABRTJS PUNCTDLATUS, Gunther. 



Labrichthys punctulata, Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish,, i\\, 

 1862,' p. 118; Id., Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., ii., 

 1873, p. 138 ; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 vi., 1881, p. 82. 



Pseudolabrus puncttdatus, Gill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xiv., 

 1892, p. 40J ; Id, Waite, Rec, Austr. Mus., vi., 1905, 

 p. 69, pi. xiii. 



Labrichthys edelensis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., ii., 

 1873", p. 137; Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 vi., 1881, p. 85; Id., Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 

 1892, p. 403. 



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 rounded. Body dark above the 

 lateral line, lighl below ; an irregular, dark longitudinal band 

 on the lower half which is connected with the upper dark pan 



