RTI'DIRS IN ADSTRAr.lAN PISIirS Mct'C I.I,0"'H. (\7 



upper jaw. Clieek-scales minute and irregular ; preopeicular edge entire, 

 the angle ronnded ; a broad naked preopercular border. Operculum with 

 two flat spines. Tiie outer teeth of each jaw are arranged in a single row, 

 and they have truncate edges, though one or two lateral ones are bi- r)i' 

 tricuspid : theie aie about twelve in eacli jaw, and tliey terminate abruptly 

 iit the sides, tliore being no minute lateral (oeth as in iVirelJu. The teeth of 

 the inner series of each jaw are minute, spaced, and pointed, and are 

 mostly arranged in a single row, thougli several scattered ones occur 

 behind the othei'S. 



Body covered with small scales which extend foi-ward to, and end 

 abruptly on the neck ; they cover the bases of the vertical fins, and extend 

 up between the I'ays of all but the ventrals. The scales are stiongi}' 

 ctenoid on the body, but cycloid on the fins ; they aie smallest on the 

 nuchal region, breast and abdomen, and largest on the sides and caudal 

 peduncle. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. 



First dorsal commencitig a little behind the vertical of the opercular 

 lobe, its spinous portion more than twice as long as the soft. The mai-gin 

 of the spinous dorsal is rounded, and the spines increase rapidly in length 

 to the fifth, after which tliej- increase slightly to the last, wliich is a little 

 shorter than the anterior rays. Soft dorsal highest anteriorly, the margin 

 ronnded. Anal commencing beneath tlie posterior dorsal spines and 

 terminating before the soft dorsal ; the length of its base is subequal to 

 that of the soft dorsal ; the second and third spines are subequal in length, 

 and about one-half as long as the atiterior rays; second ray longest, the 

 posterioi' margin of the tin subvertical. Pectorals and ventrals subequal 

 in length, the latter I'eaching to the first anal s[>ine. Caudal a little 

 emarginate. 



Colour. — Uniform dark brownish-grey after presei'vation in foi'maline, 

 the pectoral and dorsal fins somewhat lighter than the others. 



Described fi'om a sitigle specimen 159 mm. long, which was collected 

 at the Kermadec Islands by l^Ir. W. R. Oliver in 1908, and was forwarded 

 to the Australian Museum by Mr. Edgar R. AVaite. 



This species differs fiom the figures of ^'. iiebnlosiis, Kendall and 

 Radcliffe, principallj' in having markedly fimbriate nostrils, but this 

 character is unfortunately not referred to in the description of tliat species. 

 The development of a few teeth in an inner series in each jaw also 

 distinguishes it from G. iichidosus, in which they are wanting, 



Loc. — Kermadec Islands. 



Family LABRID^. 



Genus CoRis, LdccjiriJc. 



CORIS REX, Tuinisaij II, id Oi/ilhii. 



(Plate xiv., fig. 2.) 



Con'ii rp.r, llamsav ct Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, x. 4, 1886, p. 851. 

 7//., Ogilbv,'Cat. Fish. N.S.Wales, 18S(), p. 46. 7(/., Waite, Mem. 

 N.S.Wales Nat. Club, No. 2, 1904, p. :\9. ]J., Stead, Ed. Fish. 

 N.S.Wales, 1908, p. 84. 



