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by indefinite dark cross-bars. Entire body closely dotted with 



small blue ocelli. Throat and lower parts of head with dark 

 bars enclosing light areas. Soft dorsal and anal each with three 

 broad dark marks separated by lighter interspaces: margins of 

 the fins lighter. Greater portion of caudal dark, margin lighter. 

 Pectorals light coloured with a blackish basal band. 



Specimens examined. — One from Hontman Abrolhos and one 



from Albany : two from South Australia ; one from Queenscliff, 

 Victoria. Length 28-5-385 mm. 



Huh. — Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria. 



PSEUDOLABBDS UNICOLOB, Castelnau. 



Labrichthys unicolor, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr. (Vict. Offic. 

 Rec. 'Philad, Kxhib.), 1875, p. 37; Id., Macleay, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vi., 1881, p. 85. 



Pseudolahrus unicolor. Gill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xiv., 1892, 

 p. 408. 



Cheeks without scales. Colour of a dark brown rubyish tint, 

 length eight inches. 



Hah. — Western Australia. This species has not been recog- 

 nised since it was first described. 



Hauch<eres ttumactla'its, Quoy and Gaimard. 



Julis' trimaculata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, iii., 

 1835, p. 705, Atl. pi. xx., fig. 2. 



Guntheria trimaculata, Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., i., 1802, p. 138, pi. 

 xxxii., fig, 1. 



Halichoeres trimaculata* Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Fish. 

 Bur., xxv, 1906, p. 301, pi. xlvii., fig. 1 



Labrichthys nudigena, de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ix., 



1885,* p. 881. 



The type specimen of L. nudigena is dried and much shrivelled, 

 but still shows sufficient characters to leave no doubt as to its 

 identity with Halichoeres trimaculatus. The only item in the 



