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Melbourne Market, but is said to be common on the Gipps Land 

 coast. The specimen I am describing is about 17 inches long. 

 I have also five small ones about 9 inches long, which are 

 entirely similar, but have only thirty -three rays to the anal ; the 

 dorsal is of a rather dull colour. 



LATEIS BILINEATA. 



This Latris, of which I have only seen one single specimen, is 

 so very similar to the last that I hesitated to constitute it as a 

 distinct species. The form is entirely the same ; the dorsal is 

 formed of fifteen spines and forty-one rays ; the anal of two 

 spines and thirty-five rays, but the fourth of these has a pro- 

 longated filament of about one-half its length. 



The body is silvery, with the back blue ; this has two longi- 

 tudinal and rather broad golden bands on the sides ; towards the 

 middle of the height there is a longitudinal impression like a 

 second lateral line ; the inside of the mouth and throat are 

 black. 



Prom "Western Port. Length, 7 inches. 



LATEIS INOENATA. 



The profile is nearly oval ; the height is three and one-third 

 times in the total length ; the head four and one-third in the same. 

 The dorsal is higher in its spiny than in its soft part ; the first 

 is formed of sixteen spines, the fifth, sixth, and seventh being 

 the longest; the others grow shorter till they reach the 

 second part, which is formed of one spine and forty rays ; 

 these become smaller as they are inserted backwards ; the caudal 

 is strongly bifurcated, of fifteen long rays ; the pectorals have 

 nineteen rays. 



The general colour is of a blueish silvery white, with the back 

 and upper part of the head of a very dark blue, almost black. 

 This colour extends to the lateral line, where it stops suddenly, 

 without any graduation or shade ; this line has a yellow tinge. 

 The first dorsal has its membranes of a greenish brown, with also a 

 yellow tinge ; it has a rather narrow external black margin ; the 

 second dorsal is rather red, and shows the same black border. 

 The caudal is black, with an irregular transverse yellow margin, 

 situated on its external portion ; the anal is white, with its base 



