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P.O. is not quite entire, as its margin as well as tliat of the 

 sub-oj^erculum is very minutely dentate. Color of body 

 uniformly steel-blue above with silvery sides, having, in one 

 aspect, a decidedly pinkish shade. The finer subordinate shades 

 of color on the sides, however, are more or less iridescent, and 

 vary with the position of the observer. The fins are all 

 tinged with pink towards roots and extremities ; the pinkish 

 pectoral fin is particularly noticeable. Mr. Charpentier has 

 succeeded very fairly in catching the characteristic colors of 

 this handsome little fish, which, in other respects, is most 

 faithfully described and figured by Dr. Eichardson. (Voyage 

 of the Erebus and Terror, p. 47.) My attention was first 

 drawn to this specimen by Mr. Morton, who obtained it in 

 one of the fish- stalls. It was captured with flounders in 

 shallow water near Sorell in the estuary of the Derwent on 

 18th August This is the first representative of the species 

 seen by me during a residence of 14 years in Tasmania. I 

 have reason to believe, however, that it is seen by fishennen 

 occasionally in the neighborhood of Swansea. 



Family CiRKHiTiDiE. 

 Latris ciliaris. Forst. 

 Locally known as " Moki," in New Zealand. Gunth. 11. , 86. 

 B. 6 ; D. ^i; ; A. Tilr; P. -^ ; L. lat. 84. 

 Length four times that of the head, or three times the 

 height of the body ; six to eight simple pectoral rays ; no 

 vomerine teeth ; above plumbous ; below silvery white with 

 small brown dots ; fins blackish. 



Port Jackson and Tasmania, not common ; New Zealand, 

 abundant. 



Mr. Morton obtained a fine specimen of the above species 

 from Mr. W. L. Boyes, who captured it in George's Bay. 

 In my catalogue I stated that it was doubtful w^hethe r this 

 species really existed in Tasmanian waters, because the 

 Common Bastard Trumpeter (L. Forsteri) had been often 

 wrongfully referred to L. ciliaris. This matter is now 

 fortunately set at rest. 



Family Centriscid^. 

 Ceyitriscus scolopax, L. 

 The 8ni]pe, Bugler, or Trumpet Fish. 



B. 4; D. tV ; A. 20 ; P. 16 ; Y. 5 ; C. 6 x 4 x 5 x 7. 

 Gunth. Cat. IIL, p. 518 ; Johnston's Cat., p. 123. 

 The height of the body is contained once and three-fourths 

 to twice and one-third in the distance of the operculum from 

 the base of the caudal. 



