lis LABRID.t;. 



13. Labrichthys punctulata. 

 D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 3/10. 



A posterior canine tooth. Cheek neariy naked, some rudimentary 

 scales being situated near the limb of the prajoperculum. Yellowish- 

 olive (in a dried sta:tc), with numerouij bluish dots ; they are edged 

 with brownish on the middle of the length of the fish, and entirely 

 broAvnish posteriorly on the toil 



Swan River. 



a-h. Fourteen inches long : skin. Swan River. 



Description. — The form is the same as in all the fishes of this 

 genus. Head longer than high. The upper jaw has two canines in 

 front, and a series of lateral conical teeth, within which there is 

 another series destined to replace the former. The praeorbital is 

 wider than the orbit ; the naked Umb of the prseoperculum is very 

 broad ; scales of the operculum as large as those of the body ; the 

 tube of each scale of the lateral line is divided into fourteen to six- 

 teen branches, occupying nearly the whole of a scale. Spines of the 

 fins of moderate length and strength ; none of the fin-rays produced ; 

 base of the dorsal and anal not scaly. 



inches, lines. 



Total length 14 



Length of the head 3 11 



of the ninth dorsal spine 11| 



of the third anal spine 10| 



— of the caudal fin 2 



of the pectoral 2 4 



of the ventral 1 6 



To this genus perhaps belongs 



14. Labrichthys (?) unilineata. 



Cossyplms uuilinoalus Guichen. in Guer.-3Ienev. Rev. Zool. 1847, 

 p. 284. 



D ±:1£ r9^ A -2— 



A posterior canine tooth. Two anterior canine teeth in each of 

 the jaws; head scaly, longer than high ; prosoperculum not serrated. 

 Brownish (in a dried state), with a yellowish band from the snout, 

 below the eye, to the upper part of the tail. {Gxiich.) 



Guam. 



18. LABROIDES. 



Labroides, Blcek. Banda, i. p. 249. 



Labroides et Diproctacanthus, Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1801, p. 415. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size ; 

 snout pointed, with the lips prominent, one or the other notched 

 anteriorly. Opeiclcs, checks, and base of the vertical fins scaly ; pra;- 



