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The following four species were obtained :— 
PSEUDOLABRUS COCCINEUS Forster. 
ScarRLer Parrot FIsH. 
Plate XLVI. 
Labrus coccineus Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 
1801, p. 264. 
Julis? rubiginosus Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. xi., 1843, 
p. 425. 
Labrichthys roseipunctata Hutton, T.N.Z.I. xii., 1880, p. 455. 
This large and very handsome species was not taken in the 
trawl, but was obtained by means of hand lines off the Chatham 
Islands. It is of brillant scarlet colour when first removed 
from the water, with a longitudinal pink line along each row 
of scales, and some examples have a dark purple vertical mark 
on each side also; there are about five rows of ocellated pink 
spots on the dorsal fin and a similar series on the anal; the 
pectoral and ventral are without markings; a broad dark brown 
bar passes across the extremity of the caudal peduncle, the 
outer margins of the caudal lobes, which are considerably pro- 
duced are also dark brown; the caudal fin is dusky, either 
wholly or at its distal extremity. 
Length—tThe largest example obtained measures 355 mm. in 
length. 
Julis? rubiginosus Richardson, which was placed by Gtinther 
with unidentified species, is without doubt a synonym of this 
species, the description of Parkinson’s figure applying well to 
our specimens. 
P. roserpunctatus is probably the same species also, differing 
only in the absence of the dark band across the caudal peduncle, 
possibly a condition of immaturity, the type specimen being but 
six inches (152 mm.) in total length. 
PSEUDOLABRUS CELIDOTUS Forster. 
Sporty. 
Labrus celidotus Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 
1801, p. 265. Richardson, Voy. Ereb. and Terr., 1846, p. 53, 
ple xo tio 
Labrus botryocosmus Richardson, 1b., 1846, p. 53, pl. xxxi., fig. 6. 
Station 28. 
Of all the New Zealand Labroids, this is the species best known 
to line fishermen in the South Island. It was but once taken in 
