OF AUSTRALIA. 7] 
Head contained four times and one-tenth in the same ; eye 
four times in the length of the head. 
Head rather concave ; two rows of scales on the cheeks ; 
radiant reticulations round the eye and on the inner margin of 
the prasoperculum. The canine teeth rather long, particularly 
those of the upper jaw; the snout rather pointed, not longer 
than the eye ; the lower jaw is rather more advanced than the 
upper one ; the body is covered with very large scales, which 
present radiant striae ; the lateral line is very strongly bent 
downwards, a little before the end of the dorsal, and from 
this runs to the centre of the caudal. The spiny part of the 
dorsal fin is rather lower than the soft one, and is also rather 
shorter; the spines are nearly equal in length with the first 
only shorter than the others ; the membranes which unit^ 
them are rather prolongated. The caudal is large, being nearly 
one-fifth of the total length of the fish ; it is formed of four 
long rays, of which the one on each side is not so long, as the 
others, and of five or six shorter ones. Anal with three 
spines, the first of which is shorter than the second, and the 
third much thicker and longer than either ; the soft rays are 
rather long and equal; the spine of the ventral is rather 
strong and straight ; the pectorals are large, and their end is 
on a line with the base of the eighth dorsal spine. 
The general colour after a short stay in spirits, is of a fine 
orange with the back rather carmine, the dorsal and anal are 
yellow, with a broad external black band and a series of feeble 
obscure spots near the body ; the space between the first and 
second dorsal spines is black, and the sides of the caudal are 
obscure ; there are traces of feeble brown spots on the back, 
and some on the head, particularly round the eyes. The ven- 
trals have their first half orange and their external one black; 
the pectorals are entirely of a fine reddish orange. 
Length of only specimen seen a little less than five inches. 
ODAX RADIATUS. 
Malacanthus Radiatus, Quoy et Gaimard, Astrol. Zool 
iii., p. 719., pi. 19., fig. 2. 
Cheilio Lineatus, Cuv. and Vol. xiii. p. 354. 
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