436 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Oct., 



fin, and entire length of latter reaching about -| to origin of spinous 

 anal. Vent evidently close in front of latter. 



Color of dried skin faded very pale brown generally, back and upper 

 surface of head scarcely darker. On membrane of spinous dorsal 

 between first and second rays and extending apparently a little over 

 second spine a deep brown blotch a little smaller than eye. On 

 back below bases of posterior dorsal rays and upper surface of caudal 

 peduncle anteriorly, a blackish-brown blotch, very conspicuous, and 

 extending horizontally forward to lateral line till about opposite origin 

 of rayed dorsal. From anterior side of tip of snout to eye, then con- 

 tinued back from posterior margin of latter a little inferiorly along 

 upper side of head and fading out on front of back below lateral line, 

 a deep brown band, its width about equal to half a vertical eye-diam- 

 eter. From upper surface of tip of snout a band is given off on each 

 side, including nostrils where a lower ramification extends to eye, and 

 is continued from upper posterior margin of latter parallel with one 

 below, fading out on front of back. This band is also nearly as broad 

 as one below and equally distinct. Rest of upper surface of head with 

 several still narrower and slightly wavy bands or streaks of same color, 

 though a little indistinct. From end of maxillary a narrow deep 

 brown streak extends back over cheek below, passing over angle or 

 corner of preopercle towards lower base of pectoral. Fins otherwise 

 than noted all pale imiform brownish. Iris dusky. 



Length about 4^ inches (caudal damaged). 



Type, No. 33,125, A. N. S. P. Victoria. 



This species is closely related to Lepidaplois bilunidatus (Lacepede) 

 as figured under Cossyphus hilunulatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., I, 1862, p. 

 160, PI. 38, fig. 3, from Amboyna. It differs however from Bleeker's 

 fish in having about 5 longitudinal dark bands converging on the upper 

 half of the head, and a much narrower streak extending back from the 

 maxillary to the corner of the preopercle. There are also no posterior 

 canines such as Bleeker shows. From Lepidaplois alhotceniatus 

 (Valenciennes) as figured by Jordan and Evermann, Bidh U. S. Fish 

 Comm., XXIII, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 278, PI. 24, it differs in having 

 broader bands above the inferior orbital one. 



(Named for Sir John Richardson, among the most accurate of the 

 early writers on Australian fishes.) 

 Coris dorsomacula sp. nov. Fig. 8. 



Head about 3f ; depth about 3f ; D. IX, 12; A. Ill, 12; P. i, 11; V. I, 

 5; scales 5 in lateral line to base of caudal and 4 more on latter (with 

 tubes) ; 4 scales obliquely back from origin of spinous dorsal to lateral 



