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scales and the same number of transverse ones. The dorsal has 

 its scaly part of a light purple, and its extremity yellow ; the 

 caudal is of a light blue, with rather transverse yellow spots ; 

 the anal is also of a light blue, with the external part yellow, and 

 numerous spots of the latter colour all over it ; its extreme edge 

 is red; the pectorals are of a brownish red, and the ventrals 

 pink ; eye yellow. 



I have only seen one specimen of this sort, which was caught 

 at "Western Port in the first days of December. 



The Anthias Pichardsonu (Grunther, Proceedings Zoological 

 Society, 1869, p. 429,) appears to me to be a simple variety of 

 this fish, the only difference being that the black spot is situated 

 a little further back than in Basor. 



AEBIPIS. 



This genus was formed by Jenyns, in the " Zoology of the 

 Beagle (1842)," on a sort cf Centropristes, described by Cuvier 

 and Yalenciennes ; but in 1847, Mr. Brisaut de Barneville pub- 

 lished it again, under the name of Homodon. (" Bevue Zool. de 

 G-uSrin.") 



Cuvier and Valenciennes describe, in their great work, three 

 sorts, one of which {Truttaceus') they believe to be the Perca 

 Trutta of Forster, and already described by themselves under that 

 name in their second volume. Professor McCoy, in his " Notes on 

 the Zoology of Victoria " (Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866), was 

 the first to mention that two of Cuvier 's sorts were only the 

 the young and the adult of the same species, but I think that 

 that learned naturalist is mistaken when he says that the Cen- 

 tropristes georgianus, C. & V. ; G Salar, Bichard ; C. Truttaceus, 

 C. & V. ; and Perca marginata of the same, belong all to one 

 species, and also when he says that the arripis georgianus is the 

 Salmon trout of the Melbourne fishermen ; this sort is their 

 Boughfy. Their salmon trout is the Centropristes truttaceus, of 

 which the adult is the salmon or Gentr. salar. For what is of 

 Forster's Perca Trutta, as that traveller, who found it on the 

 coast of New Zealand, says that it is spotted with red, I think 

 it very doubtful that it corresponds with any of the known Aus- 

 tralian sorts. 



