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LABHID-S:. 



produced ; dorsal fin even ; caudal rounded. Brownish or greenish 

 <ti a preserved state, with rather indistinct dark cross-bands ; dorsal 

 "fin green. 



Coasts of Australia. 



a. Adult. Sydney. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



b. Adult : skin. Port Jackson. 



c. Adult: skin. Hobson's Bay. 



d-f. Adult : skios. Austraha. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 

 g. Adidt. From the Haslar Collection. 



Sir J. Richardson (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. 1843, p. 427) has 

 made the very correct observation, that the figure given by Valen- 

 ciennes, and named Odaoe puUus, does not agree with Forster's fish 

 from New Zealand. 



5. Odax radiatus. 



Malacanthus radiatus, Quoy &■ Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zool. iii. p. 719. 



pi. 19. fig. 2. ^ ' 



Cheilio Hneatus, Cuv. Sf Val. xiii. p. 354. 

 ? Odax borbonicus, Cuv. S,- Val. xiv. p. 306. 

 Odax lineatus, Richai-ds. Voy. Ereb. Sf Terr. Fish. p. 133. pi. 60. figs. 1-5. 



D. 30-31. A. 13. L. lat. 44. L. transv. 4/10. 



Praeoperculum entire ; the first dorsal spine slightly produced ; 

 caudal with the middle prolonged, rhombic. Back violet, beUy 

 orange'- coloured, a carmine-red band along the side of the back ; a 

 reddish-violet line commences behind the eye, and is forked at the 

 origin of the lateral line, one part running above, the other below 

 the convex portion of the lateral liue ; a single reddish- violet line 

 runs along and above its straight portion. Sides of the head with 

 blue longitudinal Hnes ; operculum with a dark-green spot. Dorsal 

 fin with greenish, darker-edged longitudinal Hnes and with a black- 

 ish band within its margin ; the anterior spine dark ; a black band, 

 edged with red superiorly, occupies the anterior third of the base of 

 the fin. Caudal blackish posteriorly ; anal yellowish ; pectoral rose- 

 coloured ; the outer ventral ray produced, with a red, black-edged 

 longitudinal band. 



Western coasts of Australia. 



a. Adult. Western coast of Australia. 



b, c. Adult. Freemantle. Presented by Dr. Bowerbank. 



6. Odax vittatns. 



Odax vittatus, (Soland.) JRtchards. Ann. S^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. 1843, 

 p. 426. 



D. 34. A. 14. 



The dorsal fin undulates, varying in its height : its first four rays 

 are equal to each other, after which the fin gradually lowers to the 

 thirteenth or fourteenth spine and then rises again, so that the posterior 

 quarter of the fin is higher than the first rays. Entirely brown, with 

 a silvery band commencing from the lower jaw and running through 



