OF AUSTRALIA. 
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amphiprion ;WPji;t4I. : 
This sort is nearly allied in form to Rumpel's Amph. 
Bicinctus, the dorsal not being notched. 
Height of body contained twice and two-thirds in the total 
length of the fish, or twice and one height in the same, without 
the caudal ; head three times in the latter dimension ; eye 
three times also in the length of the head. 
The general form is high j the upper profile very convex ; 
the lower jaw is longer than the upper one ; the infraorbital 
is very strongly serrated ; the snout is considerably shorter 
than the diameter of the eye ; the praeoperculum is feebly 
denticulated on its posterior part, and not at all on its lower 
one ; the operculum is very strongly serrated and four-lobed ; 
the lateral line rises at first and then follows regularly the 
profile of the back, but ends before the extremity of the 
dorsal ; it covers about thirty-eight scales. 
Dorsal of nearly equal height in all its length, of ten spines 
and eighteen rays ; caudal rounded, with the four central rays 
prolongated in short filaments, of seventeen long rays, with four 
or five short ones on each side ; anal with two spines and four- 
teen rays ; the second spine being much stronger and longer 
than the other. Ventrals placed under the base of the pectorals ; 
they are long and attain at least the first anal spine ; they are 
formed of a long slender spine and of five rays ; the pectorals 
are about as long as the ventrals, and have eighteen rays. 
The general colour, after preservation in spirits, is of a 
light pink, with a very large black blotch covering all the 
back and the sides up to the height of the base of the 
pectorals; backwards it extends to the end of the 
dorsal ; a broad pearly white transverse band runs rather 
obliquely from the nape of the neck to the lower edge of the 
operculum ; its anterior edge runs behind the eye, and it ends 
downwards by a point • it is bordered with black. On the 
back, below the end of the spiny dorsal, there is another faint 
transverse white line that does not extend far below the lateral 
line ; the fins are of a light yellow. 
Length of the specimen one inch and six-eighths. 
Port Darwin. 
