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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 live 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 EILINEATA. 
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. 
From AVestern Port. Length, 7 inches. 
LATEIS ISrOEHATA. 
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 
