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347. Coris caudimacula. [ 281 -] 



Julis caudimacula, Quoy 8$ Gaim. Voy. Astrol. iii. p. 710, Poiss. pi. 15. f. 2; Cuv. §■ Val. xiii. p. 426- 

 Hemicoris caudimacula, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. i. p. 106, t. 36. f. 2. 

 Coris caudimacula, Giintk. Fish. iv. p. 205. 



Colour in life. — Greenish, with four longitudinal lines, which are blue on snout, red on 

 head and shoulders, and orange towards tail ; all with blue edges. There is another 

 from the chin to the root of the ventrals, and one from the angle of the operculum, 

 descending obliquely behind the pectorals to the anal. A blue spot on the angle of the 

 operculum, and a black blotch on the root of the caudal. Dorsal orange, with a 

 series of green blue-edged spots along the base, and two or three series of light-blue 

 spots above. Anal orange, with reddish base enclosing orange spots ; four rows of blue 

 spots, and stripes beyond. Caudal with a blue semicircular band from the middle of 

 one lobe to that of the other, cutting off, as it were, the tips of each lobe ; within this 

 there is a broad orange band of similar shape, enclosing bluish spots. 



Zanzibar. Mozambique. Mauritius. 



348. Coris frerei, s P . n. Plate XIII. [624.] 



D. T 9 5 . A. ^. L. lat. 86. 



A posterior canine tooth. The height of the body is contained three times and a 

 half, and the length of the head to the extremity of the opercular lobe four times in 

 the total length without caudal. The two anterior dorsal spines produced, the first 

 being as long as the head ; the third and fourth are shortest ; thence they increase in 

 length posteriorly. The middle dorsal rays are the longest, and half as long as the 

 head. Caudal truncate. Ventrals narrow, long, but rather shorter than the head. 



Colour of head and neck fawn, of body bluish violet ; each scale with a round blue 

 or green spot. There are about nine dark -blue cross bands, the first crossing the body 

 above the vent, and each being about as broad as the interspace which separates it from 

 its fellow. • Along the median line of the forehead there is a green band, which becomes 

 sinuous in front of the eye, and throws out branches to each side ; there is another from 

 the second dorsal spine to the upper margin of the orbit ; thence it runs at an angle to 

 the middle of the maxillary, and again takes a curve to the angle of the mouth ; a third, 

 of horseshoe-shape, commences on the root of the ventral, runs forward to and along the 

 lower margin of the interoperculum, thence forward to the joint of the mandible, ascends 

 in a curve to the lower margin of the orbit, runs backwards across the suprascapular 

 region, and is gradually lost on the anterior portion of the lateral line ; a fourth skirts 

 the opercular and subopercular margins. These bands are brilliant green, with purple 

 edges, becoming red in a dried state. There are several similarly coloured round spots 

 on the head and opercles. The lower two-thirds of the dorsal is violet, densely covered 

 with green and blue spots, sometimes confluent into short lines ; next follows a reddish 

 band, and beyond this a reddish-brown margin, with four or five brilliant cobalt lines or 



