100 LABEHLE. 



is a greenish, then a blackish portion, also a white margin and black intramarginal 

 line. Inner surface of pectorals violet ; outer surface green. Ventrals longitudinally 

 streaked with brown, blue, green, and violet. 

 Zanzibar. Mauritius. New Hebrides. 



345. Coris formosa. [255.] 



Labrus formosus, Benn. Fishes of Ceylon, pi. 16. 

 Coris formosa, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 201. 



r> 9 a 3 



The height of the body is contained four times, and the length of the head four times 

 and a half in the total length. Anterior dorsal spines elevated ; caudal slightly rounded ; 

 ventrals pointed, reaching the vent. Two posterior canine teeth. 



Colour in life. — Snout orange, the rest of the body brown, with numerous large 

 round black spots, each nearly as large as the pupil. Two brilliant blue oblique stripes 

 on the head, — the first from a little before the anterior dorsal spine, passing along the 

 superior margins of the orbit towards the upper lip ; the second from the second dorsal 

 spine, skirting the lower part of the orbit, to behind the angle of the mouth : the second 

 is the broader of the two. A blue spot on each side of the symphysis of the lower jaw; 

 a green crescent behind axil of the pectoral. Dorsal fin blackish, covered with faint 

 blue, pink-edged spots ; it has also a broad reddish margin, having a narrow blackish 

 superior, inferior, and median line. Anal blackish, with a marginal line and an intra- 

 marginal series of spots, followed by a second line, all blue. Caudal crimson, with a 

 basal series of black spots, a broad white margin, and a narrow black intramarginal 

 line ; ventrals brownish, with a narrow blue interior margin ; pectorals reddish at the 

 base, yellowish beyond. 



This species has been observed by Colonel Playfair at Zanzibar for the first time since 

 its discovery by Bennett. The specimen agrees as well with Bennett's figure as if the 

 latter had been taken from the former ; and Dr. Giinther's opinion as to the distinctness 

 of C. formosa, Bleek., and C. formosa, Benn., is fully confirmed. 



Length 15 inches. 



Zanzibar. Ceylon. 



346. Coris annulata. [222, 294, 357, 664.] 

 Labrus amrulatus, Lacep. iii. pp. 455, 526, pi. 28. f. 3. 



Hologymnosus fasciatus, Lacep. iii. p. 557, pi. 1. f. 3; Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 96, t. 20. 

 Julis rosea, Quoy &; Gaim. Voy. Astrol. iii. p. 709, Poiss. pi. 15. f. 1. 



doliatus, Cuv. fy Vol. xiii. p. 504. 



anuulatus, Cuv. $$ Val. xiii. p. 501, pi. 388. 



Coris annulata, Giinth. Fish. iv. p. 202. 



Var. a [294, 357]. Var. b [222, 664]. 

 Zanzibar. Indian Ocean. 



