JULIS. 97 



The colour in life is bright green ; in addition to the three bands radiating from the 

 orbit (which have yellow edges) there are three others, much lighter, — the first from the 

 anterior of the orbit to the maxillary, the second from below the eye, across the chin, 

 and the third across the prseoperculum and throat. Dorsal and anal green, with 

 several oblique series of red spots, sometimes confluent. 



Zanzibar. Mozambique. East-Indian archipelago. New Guinea. Waigiou. 



334. Novacula pavo. [683. j 



Xyrichthys pavo, Cuv. % Val. xiv. p. 61, pi. 394; Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 149, t. 29. f. 2. 



pavoninus, Cuv. &; Val. xiv. p. 63. 



Novacula pavo, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. hid. 1856, Ternate, vii. p. 379; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 175. 



Colour in life. — Greenish olive, with three bluish cross bands ; a large bright patch 

 on the belly, behind the tips of the pectorals, in which each scale has a bright-blue 

 centre ; in other points the colour is as described in Giinther's Catalogue of Fishes. 



Zanzibar. Reunion. Mauritius. East-Indian archipelago. Sandwich Islands. 



335. Novacula aneitensis. [227.] 

 Novacula aneitensis, Giinth. Fish. iv-p. 176. 



Zanzibar. New Hebrides. 



336. Novacula punctulata. [441.] 

 Novacula punctulata, Cuv. fy Val. xiv. p. 73 ; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 177. 



Colour in life. — Pale greenish olive ; a large reddish-brown spot on the lateral line 

 below the last dorsal spines, underneath which is a still larger white and blue patch ; a 

 pale-blue line from above angle of operculum to behind operculum ; another, edged 

 with yellow, from anterior margin of orbit to angle of mouth ; upper edge of head 

 bluish. Dorsal orange, with oblique pale-violet wavy lines ; anal pale greenish olive, 

 with oblique bright-yellow lines ; caudal rosy, with six or seven transverse series of 

 darker spots. 



Zanzibar. China. 



JULIS, Cuv. & Val* 



337. Julis lunaris. [80.] 



Labrus lunaris, L., Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 90, t. 33. f. 5 ; Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 180, which see for the 

 rest of the synonymy. 



Aden. Zanzibar. Seychelles. From the east coast of Africa to China and Polynesia. 



* Undetermined specimen [402]. 



