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Origin of spinous dorsal about opposite posterior margin of opercle 

 or much nearer tip of snout than base of caudal, third spine longest, 

 first shortest, and last much shorter than second. Rayed dorsal with 

 its origin about midway between posterior margin of eye and base of 

 caudal, and anterior rays highest. Rayed anal similar, and depressed 

 fin reaching base of caudal. Second anal ray longer, and origin of 

 spinous anal a little nearer posterior margin of eye than base of caudal. 

 Caudal (damaged) probably rounded? Pectoral long, reaching a little 

 beyond origin of rayed anal or a trifle more than half way to base of 

 caudal, and upper median rays longest. Ventral inserted a trifle before 

 origin of pectoral and reaching a little beyond tip of depressed pectoral, 

 first ray longest. Vent close in front of anal. 



Color faded in alcohol largely dull brown, scales everywhere min- 

 utely and obscurely specked or dotted with slightly darker. Iris slaty. 

 Fins all pale brown. Spinous dorsal and ventrals blackish, especially 

 so distally. 



Length If inches (caudal damaged). 



Type, No. 33,124, A. N. S. P. Victoria. 



This species resembles Apogonichthys darnleyensis Alley ne and 

 ^Maclea}'', but differs in the absence of minute serra3 on the edges of the 

 preopercle, and coloration. From Apogonichthys adspersus Castelnau 

 it differs in fewer scales and more dorsal spines. From Apogonichthys 

 longicaiida De Vis, from Queensland, it differs in having the second 

 dorsal spine much longer than the first, proportions of head and 

 depth and coloration. 



(Named for Dr. E. Pierson Ramsay, the well-known Australian 

 natm'alist.) 



ENOPLOSID^. 



Enoplosus armatus (White). "Old Wife." 



One example from Sorrento, on the coast of Victoria. 



H^MULID^. 

 Terapon ouvieri (Bleekcr). 



One young. 



POMACENTRID^. 

 Tetradrachmum aruanum (Liiinccus). 



One example. 



LABRID^. 

 Lepidaplois richardsoni sp. nov. Fig. 7. 



Head 3^; depth 2^ ; D. XII, 11 ; A. Ill, 10, i; P. i, 16; V. I, 5; scales 

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