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fisli is variegated with irregular brown spots, forming numerous 
and irregular concentric lines. The eye is brown. 
I found in the stomach a large quantity of seaweed. This 
fish appears rather scarce, and is only found during the hot 
months of the year (in September, November, and December,) 
on the Melbourne Market. The fishmongers say that it is not 
generally eaten ; the flesh is dark, but was found good. The 
largest specimen I have seen of this handsome fish is 19 inches 
long. It is always foimd among the seaweed. 
CIIEILODACTTLDS. 
This genus, which was formed by Lacepede, is almost entirely 
confined to the extreme southern parts of the globe, being from 
the south of Chili, the Cape of Good Hope, New Zealand, and 
Australia. Two sorts are rather common on the Melbourne 
Market, and are used as food of middling quality. 
Dr. Gunther changes the name in Ohilodactylus, brrt I, once 
more, do not consider these rectifications as desirable. 
CUEILOUACTTmiS MACBOPTEEUS. 
Cichla macroptera, Bloch.; Schneid., page 22. 
Cheilodactylus macropterus,i2icAard., Trans. Zool.Soc.,\. iii., 
p. 99 ; Proceed. Zool. Soc., 1850, p. 62. 
I have sometimes heard this fish called Bastard Trumpeter by 
the fishmongers. It is remarkable by its sixth pectoral ray, 
which is extended more than twice and sometimes three times 
the length of the others. 
The colour is silvery, with the upper parts and the head of a 
light purple ; there is a black spot behind the upper part of the 
operculum ; the branchiostegal membrane is of a beautiful light 
blue ; the dorsal, caudal and anal are of a rather dirty yellow^, 
with the spines purple ; the ventrals are white, and the pectorals 
yellorv, with their interior rays white ; eye silvery, surrounded 
by a blue ring. The sides sometimes show some iridescent longi- 
tudinal streaks. 
It is usually about a foot long, and very rarely attains 18 
inches, and is found on all the southern coasts of Australia and 
New Zealand. 
