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RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
there being already a Cossyphus vufus, and as he did not recognise 
its identity with the earlier C. vulpinus, he changed the name to 
C. frenchii. 
Mr. Ogilby has kindly examined the type specimen in the 
Queensland Museum of Cossyphus aurifer, De Vis, for me, and writes 
that he considers it identical with the species figured by Waite. 
PSEUDOLABRUS PARILUS, Richardson. 
Plate XII 
Tautoga parila, Richardson — Proc. Zooi. Soc., 1850, p. 70. 
Labrichthys parila, Castelnau— Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet., II., 1873, p. 137- 
D IX., 11.; A. III., 10; P. 13; V. I., 5; C. 12-13; '• lat - 26 i 
1 . tr. 3-4 + 9. Height 31 in the length to the hypural, and equal to 
the length of the head including the opercular flap. Eye 5, snout 
3-3+, caudal peduncle i T % in the head. 
Body moderately elongate, compressed, covered with large 
scales which extend on to the nape and the caudal fin, but not over 
the bases of the dorsal and anal. A single series of small and im- 
perfect scales from behind the eye to the cheek, and othei large and 
irregular ones covering the operculum; head otherwise naked and 
closely pitted with minute pores. Preorbital narrower than the 
eye. A pair of strong canines in front of each jaw, those ot the 
upper separated ; sides with a single series of smaller camne-like 
teeth decreasing in size backwards, and a second inner series of 
very small ones anteriorly. Posterior canines present. Nostrils 
close together near the supero-anterior angle of the eye ; the antenor 
tubular, posterior simple. Lateral line following the curve of the 
back over 20 scales, then bending downward, two rows to the 
middle of the caudal peduncle ; the ramifications of the tubules 
cover all the exposed portions of the scales except the extreme 
edges. 
Dorsal fin commencing above the hinder half of the operculum. 
Spines increasing in length backwards, the last 2^-3 in the head, 
and each topped by a prolongation of the membrane. Soft portion 
of the pin angular behind, the anterior rays longer than the pos- 
terior ; 2} in the head. Anal similar to, and terminating a little in 
advance of the dorsal. Pectoral i| in the head, the upper rays 
longest, margin rounded. Ventral pointed, second ray not quite 
reaching to the vent. Caudal rounded. 
