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scales and tlie 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 Ricliardsonu (Gunther, 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. 
AEEIPIS. 
This genus was formed by Jenyns, in the “ Zoology of the 
Beagle (1842),” on a sort of Cenfropristes, described by Cuvier 
and Valenciennes ; but in 1847, Mr. Brisaut de Barneville pub- 
lished it again, under the name of Homodon. (“ Eovue Zool. de 
Gulrin.”) 
Cuvier and Valenciennes describe, in their great work, three 
sorts, one of which {Tridtaceus) they believe to be the Peroa 
Trutta of Porster, and already described by themselves under that 
name in their second volume. Professor Me Coy, in his “ N otes 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.; O. Salar, Eichard ; C. Tmttaceus, 
C. & V. ; and Perc« 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 
PougTify. Their salmon trout is the Cenfropristes triittaceus, of 
which the adult is the salmon or Centr. solar. For what is of 
Forster’s Perea 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. 
