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ralibus puniceis purpurea marginatis, postice in u?ium coalescen- 

 tibus, inque pinna productis ; pinna dorsi basi virida, in medio 

 late purpurea : superne aurantiacd^ purpurea guttata, inque mar- 

 gine extremo cceruled ; pinna ani basi aurantiacd, dein primu- 

 laceo-Jlavd, iitrinque ccerulea cinctd, exinde purpured cctruleo 

 guftatd, denique in extremo margine cceruled. 

 Radii:—?. 12; V. 1, 5 ; D. 9, 11; A. 3, 10; C. 14. 

 This is a very handsome species, having a duck-green colour, with 

 two lake-red stripes, commencing at the gill-opening and uniting 

 opposite the end of the dorsal to form a single broader stripe which 

 is continued into the caudal fin. These stripes are bordered on both 

 sides by dotted lines of plum-blue, and there are also five rows of blue 

 spots on the sides of the belly, and three rows near the base of the 

 anal fin, on a lake-red ground. Several purple lines radiate from all 

 sides of the orbit, and some pass over the preoperculum, interoper- 

 culum, and lower jaw. The dorsal is dark-purple, with green at the 

 base of the rays, and an orange band at the tips, spotted and finally 

 edged with blue. The anal has an orange streak along its base, 

 then a broad primrose-yellow band edged above and below by a nar- 

 row blue line, next a broad band of purple with many very regular 

 blue spots, and finally a narrow blue edging. The caudal is purple, 

 with many plum-blue spots near its extremity in a vertical band. 

 The other fins are apparently colourless. The aspect of the fish is 

 that of a Julis, but the operculum and cheeks are scaly. 



15. Lepidoleprus australis. Lep. squamis corporis ordinibus 

 plurimis aculeorum arete incumbentium instructis ; pinnd ani 

 plus duplici altitudine pinnam dorsi posteriorem superante, 

 Badii:-—Br. 6-6-, P. 16; V. 1, 6; D. 2, 11-89; C. 1. 

 This is an example of a genus which had not previously been 

 detected in the southern hemisphere. It has the general form of 

 Lepidoleprus calorhyncJius, but there are abundant specific diflfer- 

 ences, especially in the relative size of the fins, and in the arming 

 of the scales, which in the Antarctic fish consists of rows of closely- 

 incumbent strong spines. The author has compared it with exam- 

 ples of ccelorhynchus from the Mediterranean, and also from Madeira, 

 both in the Society's museum, whose scales are totally different. 

 None of these examples have the first dorsal ray serrated, as it is 

 stated to be by writers who have described and figured the Green- 

 land and Iceland Macrourus rupestris, yet Cuvier states that he has 

 ascertained the identity of the latter with the Mediterranean fish. 

 The first dorsal ray of L. australis is also smooth. There are sixty- 

 seven vertebrae, of which fourteen are abdominal. The collection 

 contained three specimens. 



A Platycephalus intermediate between fuscus and grandispinis, a 



