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tlie anterior portion of the e}-e. the nioutli a Httle olilique: teeth in a single series 

 in each jaw; they are thick and slig-htly cnrvecl and laterally compressed towards 

 their bases: o|rerculnm with a broad flat spine. 



F.ntire head, with the exception of the snout and lower jaw, covered with 

 scales ; these are largest on the operculum, and the basal portions of many are 

 covered by membrane beset with minute ])ores ; they extend forward to between 

 the anterior portions of the eyes. Body scales largest on the sides, becoming 

 much smaller on the caudal peduncle: they cover the basal portions of all the fins 

 exce])t the ventrals, and extend up between the rays of the vertical fins : lateral 

 line a little curved, terminating below the anterior portion of the soft dorsal, and 

 covering twenty scales ; there are twenty-nine rows of scales lietween the origin 

 of the lateral line and the hypural joint. 



Fins. Origin of the dorsal aliove the end of the operculum; the s]iinous 

 part is rounded ; fifth spine longest, about twice as long as the eye : soft dorsal 

 angular, the sixth ray the longest : pectorals as long as the head, the fourth upper 

 ray longest and not reaching quite so far backward as the ventrals, which scarcely 

 attain the vent : caudal forked. 



Coloitr-inarkings. Bleached after long preservation in spirits, and showing 

 only some pearly markings on the throat and preopercular border; one is on the 

 chin, and a second crosses the throat from liehind the angles of the mouth. 



Described and figured from a somewhat imperfect s])ecimen in the old col- 

 lection of the South Australian Museum; it is 176 mm. long froiu the snout 

 to the hypural joint. 



Loc. St. \'incent dulf. South .Vustralia. The species has been recorded 

 from \'ictoria, Tasmania, and King ( leorge Sound. 



Family LABRIDAE. 

 PSEUDOLABRUS AURANTIACUS Castelnau. 



Cliciliinis auranfiaciis Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. \'ict. i, 1872, p. 243, and ii, 187,^, 



p. 71. Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. \\'ales, vi, t88i, p. 92. 

 l.nhriclitliys rlct/aiis Steindacliner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. W'ien, Ixxxviii. i, fSS^ 



( 18S4), ]). 1 102, pl. vi, fig. 2-3. 

 Psciidolabnis cicgaus Gill, Proc. U.S. Nat. ^Tus. xiv, 1892, p. 403. McCulloch, 



Rec. Aust. ^lus. ix, 3, 1913, p. 376, 



.\ s])ecimen lu) mm. long, in the olrl collection of the South Australian 

 Aluscum, is laljelled as Chciliiuis aiiraiitiaciis Castelnau. It agrees with the 

 description of that siiecies in all structural details, and in such colour-markings 

 as remain. Tt is also itlentical with P. ricf/aiis Steindacliner, and as Castelnau's 



