258 Annals of the South African Museum. 



FAMILY LABBID^E. 



CORIS ANNULATA, Lacep. 



No posterior canines. Depth of body 3f to 4 times in total length 

 excluding caudal, length of head 3^ to 3-f times. Snout 3i to 4 times 

 diameter of eye, which is 1^- times to nearly twice in interorbital 

 width and 7 to 9^- times in length of head. Head long and pointed; 

 interorbital space convex; jaws equal, upper broad and folded, lower 

 lip pendant ; maxillary reaches to vertical of about midway between 

 point of snout and anterior nostril. 



Dorsal ix 12; spines feeble and about -^V length of head. Pectorals 

 - length of head. Ventrals f length of pectorals, pointed. Anal 

 iii 12 ; similar to soft dorsal. Caudal |- length of head, crescentic, 

 the middle of the crescent being rather convex. Lat. 1. Ill (circa). 



Colour (of preserved specimens), light brown ; a light band from 

 between eyes to point of snout, another starting from same place to 

 a transverse band near point of snout ; a light band starting from 

 middle of cheek to lower edge of orbit, thence across to opercular 

 border ; one from posterior border of eye to scapula ; one from 

 corner of mouth across upper angle of orbit to nape and passing 

 down to mouth on the other side ; a band from angle of mouth 

 across snout to corresponding angle on other side, with a band 

 passing up to nape and down the other side ; a band from nape 

 down middle of snout to upper lip ; a dark spot on opercular nap ; a 

 broad band across body passing through pectoral region, and about 

 15 narrow transverse bands on posterior half of body. Pectorals 

 dark brown at base and diagonally across to end of superior rays ; 

 dorsal dark. 



Five specimens, ranging in length from 291 mm. to 350 mm. ; 

 the largest from Durban Museum, the others from Mr. Eomer 

 llobinson, Natal. 



? PSEUDOSCAKUS MACULosus, Lacep. 



Jaws whitish, no pointed teeth at angle. Depth of body equals 

 length of head and is 34- times in total length excluding caudal. 

 Snout slightly greater than interorbital width and 2f times diameter 

 of eye, which is 6f times in length of head. Snout swollen and 

 obtuse, upper lip thick; 2 series of scales on cheeks, the lower 

 series composed of 6 scales on left side, 5 on right, and a single 

 scale on lower limb of preoperculum. 



Dorsal ix 10 ; spines weak, 1st spine shortest, remainder subequal 



