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LABBHXE. 



Colour in spirits. — Uniform light yellowish olive ; one specimen with an elongate 

 ovate blackish spot before and below the bend of the lateral line ; this spot is absent in 

 another specimen, and represented in a third by a minute dot only ; the two last- 

 mentioned specimens have a broad pearl-coloured band along each side of the belly, 

 commencing at the base of the pectorals. 



Colour in life. — Green, a violet line from middle of snout (where it meets the 

 corresponding one on the other side) skirting the upper margin of the orbit, nearly as 

 far as the end of the operculum. A similar line on the cheeks below the orbit, from 

 the angle of the mouth nearly to the praeopercular margin. A large violet ring on the 

 upper part of the operculum. Blotch on the sides as before described. Dorsal and 

 anal orange, with a greenish tint and a narrow violet margin. — Length 3-^ inches. 



Zanzibar. 



NOVACULA, Cm. & Vol.* 



332. Novacula tseniurus. [214, 256, 560.] 



Labrus taeniurus, Lacep. iii. pp. 448, 518, pi. 29. f. 1. 

 Xyrichthys tseniurus, Cuv. Sf Vol. xiv. p. 54, pi. 393 (not Bleek.). 

 Novacula taeniurus, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 172. 



Var. a [214]. Colour in life. — Brown, each scale with an olive-green centre ; belly- 

 scales red, with white margins; head immaculate. Dorsal greenish, with oblique 

 brown stripes and spots ; anal brownish green, with oblong brown stripes and spots 

 along the rays, and round ones between them ; two deep-blue-black spots between the 

 first and second and second and third dorsal spines, each with a yellow margin 

 anteriorly. A broad yellow band across the base of the caudal. An orange spot on 

 axil of pectoral, and a black crescent behind that fin, which is black below and yellow 

 above. — Length 12 inches. 



Var. b [256, 560]. Similar in general coloration to var. c, but without any markings 

 on the dorsal and anal fins except the two anterior spots. The band across the 

 base of the caudal is darker than in var. a, and the belly-scales are not red. — Length 

 13 inches. 



Zanzibar. Mauritius. 



333. Novacula macrolepidota. 



Labrus macrolepidotus, Bl. t. 284. 



Julis trimaculatus, Cuv. fy Vol. xiii. p. 386. 



Xyricbthys macrolepidotus, Cuv. fy Vol. xiv. p. 59 ; Peters, Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 264. 



Novaculichthys macrolepidotus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 144, t. 31, f. 6. 



Novacula macrolepidota, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 174. 



* Undetermined specimen [578]. 



[302, 688.] 



