PSEUDOJULIS. 95 



Julis decussatus, Cuv. fy Val. xiii. p. 433. 



hortulanus, Cuv. £$ Val. xiii. p. 430. 



Hemitautoga centiquadrus, Bleek. Ail. Ichth. i. p. 139, t. 32. f. 3. 

 Platyglossus hortulanus, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 147. 



Var. a [246]. Corresponds to Bleeker's figure ; the general coloration is brownish 

 yellow, each scale having a brown vertical streak, generally formed by two spots joined 

 by a lighter band. 



Var. b [352]. More nearly allied to Riippell's figure ; general colour green, each 

 scale with a dark centre. 



Zanzibar. Bed Sea. From East Africa to Polynesia. 



329. Platyglossus opercularis. Plate XII. fig. 1. [457.] 

 Platyglossus opercularis, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 148. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a third in the total length, that 

 of the head three times and four-fifths. A small posterior canine tooth ; caudal 

 rounded ; ventrals not produced. 



Colour reddish brown, marbled with darker and with black. Head with a reddish- 

 violet darker-edged band running from the snout, through the lower half of the eye, 

 to the operculum ; a silvery band immediately below the first band. A black spot 

 behind the orbit, and another, lighter, on the extremity of the operculum. Lower 

 third of the head whitish. Each scale on the upper half of the body has a blackish- 

 brown margin. The lower half of the body is whitish. Base of pectorals silvery white, 

 pectorals transparent; ventrals white. Dorsal fin yellowish, with pairs of oblique, 

 reddish-violet, darker-edged streaks ; a small black spot between the first two spines ; 

 a large black yellow-edged ocellus between the first three rays, below the margin. 

 Caudal yellowish, with the outer half indistinctly transversely striped ; anal grey, with 

 some very indistinct whitish spots along the base. — Length 3 inches. 



Island of Johanna. Feejee Islands. Amboyna. 



330. Platyglossus bimaculatus. [230. ] 

 Halichoeres bimaculatus, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 17, t. 5. f. 2. 



Julis bimaculatus, Cuv. fy Val. xiii. p. 493. 

 Platyglossus bimaculatus, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 157. 



Zanzibar. Bed Sea. Ceylon. 



PSEUDOJULIS, Bleek. 



331. Pseudojulis argyreogaster, sp. n. Plate XII. fig. 2. [584, 627, 684.] 



• D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 27. 

 Height of the body one-sixth, and length of the head one-fourth of the total length. 



